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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did the author receive a message to contact her mother immediately because her father had been killed?
(a) 7/2/80.
(b) 5/3/76.
(c) 12/1/75.
(d) 6/29/80.

2. When was Bruce Bechdel born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1939.

3. What skillful craftsman and artist from Greek mythology does the author compare her father to in Chapter 1?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Ares.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Daedalus.

4. The author compares her aesthetic to her father's in Chapter 1, saying that she was Spartan to her father's what?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Victorian.
(c) Egalitarian.
(d) Athenian.

5. 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) Simile.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The title of Chapter 2: "A Happy Death," alludes to a novel written by what author?

4. Of what material was Bruce Bechtel's tombstone made?

5. What author had Bruce Bechdel become immersed in the year before he died?

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