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

2. Who ran the famous bookstore Shakespeare and Company and published Ulysses?
(a) Radclyffe Hall.
(b) E. M. Forster.
(c) Sylvia Beach.
(d) Elsa Gidlow.

3. How old was Alison Bechdel when she realized she was a lesbian?
(a) 19.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 22.

4. What word from Chapter 5 means self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness?
(a) Maudlin.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Legerdemain.
(d) Antagonistic.

5. What character in Ulysses is an exile because he is a Jew, according to the panels in Chapter 7?
(a) Gilbet Osmond.
(b) James Fletcher.
(c) Leopold Bloom.
(d) Morris Townsend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Bruce Bechdel been recording on the tape that the author's mother discovered after his death in Chapter 5?

2. What book did the author's father give to her, saying that "the first three stories are like drafts from Portrait" in Chapter 7?

3. 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"?

4. Over what mountains does the author describe her sunrise rising as a child in Chapter 5?

5. What skillful craftsman and artist from Greek mythology does the author compare her father to in Chapter 1?

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