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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the male leading role in the play where the author's parents met?
(a) Petruchio.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Mr. Darcy.
(d) Macbeth.

2. What is the author's mother's middle name?
(a) Anne.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Augusta.
(d) Elizabeth.

3. What was the name of Bruce Bechdel's father?
(a) Henry.
(b) Claude.
(c) Marcus.
(d) Homer.

4. Who wrote Alison Bechdel's mother's favorite poem?
(a) T. S. Elliot.
(b) E. M. Forster.
(c) Elsa Gidlow.
(d) Wallace Stevens.

5. What term from Chapter 7 refers to a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction?
(a) Novella.
(b) Roman à clef.
(c) Epistolary novel.
(d) Nonfiction fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote As I Lay Dying?

2. Who authored the novel Orlando: A Biography?

3. How long after Bruce Bechdel's trial did Nixon resign as President?

4. Whose autobiography does the author describe her father giving to her in Chapter 7?

5. How old was the author when she claims her "father's secret almost surfaced" in Chapter 6?

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