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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the home where Alison Bechdel grew up?
(a) Mapleton, MA.
(b) Brigdon, NY.
(c) Beech Creek, PA.
(d) New Hope, PA.

2. The author says in Chapter 1 that being raised by her father was not like being raised by Jimmy Stewart but by whom?
(a) Donna Reed.
(b) Martha Stewart.
(c) Bette Davis.
(d) Amanda Stewart.

3. 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) "Beautiful."
(b) "Historical."
(c) "What they were not."
(d) "Pristine."

4. How long before her father's death did Bechdel come out to her parents as gay?
(a) 2 months earlier.
(b) 2 weeks earlier.
(c) 1 week earlier.
(d) 4 months earlier.

5. Who is the heroine in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady?
(a) Isabel Archer.
(b) Marie Antoinette.
(c) Emily Wharton.
(d) Edna Waldrop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date printed on the passport photo from the author's trip to Europe with her family in Chapter 3?

2. 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?

3. What did Bruce Bechdel teach?

4. What does the word "qualmish" mean in Chapter 3?

5. When was Bruce Bechdel born?

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