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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the "smooth-talking fortune hunter" in The Heiress that the author describes in Chapter 3?
(a) Morris Townsend.
(b) James Waldrop.
(c) Edgar Spency.
(d) William James.

2. Who is the male leading role in the play where the author's parents met?
(a) Petruchio.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Mr. Darcy.

3. Who is the author of The Well of Loneliness?
(a) Elsa Gidlow.
(b) Radclyffe Hall.
(c) Morris Townsend.
(d) James Joyce.

4. From what children's book does the author's father's read to her in the bedtime panel in Chapter 1?
(a) James and the Giant Peach.
(b) Just So Stories.
(c) Alice in Wonderland.
(d) April Rabbits.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes her childhood home as being built in a brief moment of wealth from the lumber industry in what year?

2. In what year did Bruce Bechdel die?

3. What film does the author describe her parents taking the family to see when it opened in 1974?

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

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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