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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) 6/29/80.
(b) 12/1/75.
(c) 5/3/76.
(d) 7/2/80.

2. The title of Chapter 2: "A Happy Death," alludes to a novel written by what author?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Albert Camus.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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

4. Where was Bruce Bechdel when he died?
(a) Route 150.
(b) His mother's house.
(c) Route 80.
(d) The funeral home.

5. What classic movie with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed does the author allude to in Chapter 1?
(a) Rear Window.
(b) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
(c) Vertigo.
(d) It's a Wonderful Life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was the author when her father died?

3. What aromas does the author describe her father having smelled of in Chapter 1?

4. Where did the author's mother study acting?

5. In one of the illustrated panels in Chapter 1, the author says, "When I grow up, my house is going to be all metal, like" what?

(see the answer key)

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