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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author does Bechdel recall reading regarding her obsessive-compulsive disorder when she was a child?
(a) E. H. Shepard.
(b) Dr. Spock.
(c) Morris Townsend.
(d) Radclyffe Hall.

2. Consider the following sentence from Chapter 1: "His shame inhabited our house as pervasively and invisibly as the aromatic must of aging mahogany." What literary device is used in this sentence?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Literary allusion.

3. How does the author describe Joan after their meeting in Chapter 3?
(a) "Joan was a mechanic and a laborer."
(b) "Joan was an academic and an intellectual."
(c) "Joan was a poet and a 'matriarchist.'"
(d) "Joan was a musician and a short-story writer."

4. How old was the author when her father died?
(a) 16.
(b) 21.
(c) 22.
(d) 19.

5. Who wrote They Odyssey?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Homer.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. What month was it when the author got her first period?

2. How frequently do locusts appear and swarm?

3. What profession did Bruce Bechdel have other than being a teacher?

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

5. What magazine did the author's mother give her for her 14th birthday?

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