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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 does the word "qualmish" mean in Chapter 3?
(a) Nauseated.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Worried.
(d) Insistent.

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) Amanda Stewart.
(c) Martha Stewart.
(d) Bette Davis.

3. 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"?
(a) Finnegan's Wake.
(b) Dubliners.
(c) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
(d) Ulysses.

4. What novel is the play The Heiress based on?
(a) Washington Square.
(b) The Sun Also Rises.
(c) To Have and Have Not.
(d) The Great Gatsby.

5. How long prior to his death did Bruce Bechdel's wife ask him for a divorce?
(a) 1 week prior.
(b) 2 weeks prior.
(c) 2 days prior.
(d) 2 months prior.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many gestures of affection does the author describe witnessing between her parents in Chapter 3?

2. The title of Chapter 3, ""That Old Catastrophe," is an allusion to what poem by Wallace Stevens?

3. What skillful craftsman and artist from Greek mythology does the author compare her father to in Chapter 1?

4. How did F. Scott Fitzgerald die?

5. Who is the author of The Well of Loneliness?

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