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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What film does the author describe her parents taking the family to see when it opened in 1974?
(a) Cassablanca.
(b) To Have and Have Not.
(c) The Maltese Falcon.
(d) The Great Gatsby.

2. What does the author claim was her father's passion but not his job in Chapter 1?
(a) Drinking Scotch.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Historical restoration.
(d) Clothing design.

3. On what date did the author receive a message to contact her mother immediately because her father had been killed?
(a) 7/2/80.
(b) 5/3/76.
(c) 6/29/80.
(d) 12/1/75.

4. How did the author's father die?
(a) He was hit by a truck.
(b) He hung himself.
(c) He was shot on a hunting trip.
(d) He drowned in a river.

5. When was Bruce Bechdel born?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1949.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the "smooth-talking fortune hunter" in The Heiress that the author describes in Chapter 3?

2. How did Alison Bechdel inform her parents that she was gay?

3. How many gestures of affection does the author describe witnessing between her parents in Chapter 3?

4. What kind of truck was involved in Bruce Bechdel's death?

5. Of her father, the author writes in Chapter 1, "... my brothers and I were free labor. Dad considered us extensions of his own body, like" what?

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