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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author says of her father in Chapter 1, "He used his skillful artifice not to make things, but to make things appear to be" what?
(a) "Pristine."
(b) "What they were not."
(c) "Beautiful."
(d) "Historical."

2. How did the author's father die?
(a) He hung himself.
(b) He was shot on a hunting trip.
(c) He was hit by a truck.
(d) He drowned in a river.

3. The author writes in Chapter 1 that "In the circus, acrobatics where one person lies on the floor balancing another are called" what?
(a) "Icarian Games."
(b) "Epicurian Games."
(c) "Homeric Games."
(d) "Daedalus Games."

4. Where did the author's mother study acting?
(a) Ottawa.
(b) New York City.
(c) New Brunswick.
(d) Miami.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says in Chapter 1 that being raised by her father was not like being raised by Jimmy Stewart but by whom?

2. The author directly correlates the embellishments of her childhood home to what in Chapter 1?

3. How long prior to his death did Bruce Bechdel's wife ask him for a divorce?

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

5. 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"?

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