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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 author had Bruce Bechdel become immersed in the year before he died?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Marcel Proust.

2. What is the date printed on the passport photo from the author's trip to Europe with her family in Chapter 3?
(a) March 13, 1963.
(b) June 3, 1969.
(c) September 1, 1971.
(d) June 29, 1967.

3. The title of Chapter 2: "A Happy Death," alludes to a novel written by what author?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) Albert Camus.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

4. The author says of her father in Chapter 1, "He used his skillful artifice not to make things, but to make things appear to be" what?
(a) "What they were not."
(b) "Pristine."
(c) "Beautiful."
(d) "Historical."

5. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home is a graphic memoir that is filled with literary allusions. What book by James Joyce is alluded to with the title of Chapter 1: "Old Father, Old Artificer"?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
(c) Finnegan's Wake.
(d) Dubliners.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Bruce Bechdel die?

2. What was the name of Bruce Bechdel's brother?

3. What does the author describe her father rinsing her with in the bathtub as a child in Chapter 1?

4. How old was F. Scott Fitzgerald when he died?

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

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