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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author describes her childhood home as being built in a brief moment of wealth from the lumber industry in what year?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1911.

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

3. Who is the author of The Well of Loneliness?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Radclyffe Hall.
(c) Morris Townsend.
(d) Elsa Gidlow.

4. Who is the author of the novel Maurice that is alluded to in Chapter 3?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) E. M. Forster.
(c) Radclyffe Hall.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

5. Who is the 77-year-old poet who is referenced as a lesbian in the panel on page 74?
(a) Elsa Gidlow.
(b) Marie Antony.
(c) Jennifer Roberts.
(d) Christine Roth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes in Chapter 1 that "In the circus, acrobatics where one person lies on the floor balancing another are called" what?

2. Who is the heroine in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady?

3. The author directly correlates the embellishments of her childhood home to what in Chapter 1?

4. The title of Chapter 2: "A Happy Death," alludes to a novel written by what author?

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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