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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Alison Bechdel's mother?
(a) Eleanor.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Helen.
(d) Emily.

2. Over how many years does the author say her father restored their home?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 15.
(d) 22.

3. 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) 1798.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1867.

4. The author says in Chapter 3, "Dad was passionate about many writers, but he had a particular reverence for" whom?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

5. How does the author describe Joan after their meeting in Chapter 3?
(a) "Joan was an academic and an intellectual."
(b) "Joan was a poet and a 'matriarchist.'"
(c) "Joan was a mechanic and a laborer."
(d) "Joan was a musician and a short-story writer."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the "cultured, dissipated, and penniless European art collector" that the heroine marries in The Portrait of a Lady?

2. The author compares her aesthetic to her father's in Chapter 1, saying that she was Spartan to her father's what?

3. What novel is the play The Heiress based on?

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

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

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