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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 describes her childhood home as being built in a brief moment of wealth from the lumber industry in what year?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1798.

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

3. What does the author claim was her father's passion but not his job in Chapter 1?
(a) Drinking Scotch.
(b) Clothing design.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Historical restoration.

4. How does the author describe her father's headstone in Chapter 2?
(a) It is a Celtic cross.
(b) It is an obelisk.
(c) It is a Catholic cross.
(d) It is a star.

5. Of her father, the author writes in Chapter 1, "... my brothers and I were free labor. Dad considered us extensions of his own body, like" what?
(a) "Gilded wings."
(b) "Enslaved legs and arms."
(c) "Hairy fingertips."
(d) "Precision robot arms."

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away was the author in college when her father died?

2. How did the author's father die?

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

4. The author writes in Chapter 1 that "In the circus, acrobatics where one person lies on the floor balancing another are called" what?

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

(see the answer key)

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