1. Who is the "smooth-talking fortune hunter" in The Heiress that the author describes in Chapter 3?
(a) James Waldrop.
(b) Morris Townsend.
(c) William James.
(d) Edgar Spency.

2. 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) "Beautiful."
(b) "What they were not."
(c) "Historical."
(d) "Pristine."

3. What kind of truck was involved in Bruce Bechdel's death?
(a) A Borden Milk truck.
(b) A Sunbeam Bread truck.
(c) A Duncan Hines truck.
(d) A Getty Gas truck.

4. How long before her father's death did Bechdel come out to her parents as gay?
(a) 2 weeks earlier.
(b) 2 months earlier.
(c) 4 months earlier.
(d) 1 week earlier.

5. Who is the "cultured, dissipated, and penniless European art collector" that the heroine marries in The Portrait of a Lady?
(a) William Anderson.
(b) James Fletcher.
(c) Gilbet Osmond.
(d) Morris Townsend.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. The author says in Chapter 1 that being raised by her father was not like being raised by Jimmy Stewart but by whom?

3. How does the author describe her father's headstone in Chapter 2?

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

5. Who is the male leading role in the play where the author's parents met?

(see the answer key)

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