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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the end of what month does the author say her "earnest diary entries had given way to the implicit lie of the blank page" in Chapter 6?
(a) November.
(b) December.
(c) July.
(d) March.

2. What play were Bruce Bechdel and his wife performing in when they met?
(a) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
(b) The Tragedy of Macbeth.
(c) The Taming of the Shrew.
(d) All's Well that Ends Well.

3. Where did the author's mother tell her they might move because of her father's court hearing in Chapter 6?
(a) California or Oregon.
(b) New York or Massachusetts.
(c) Mississippi or Arkansas.
(d) Louisiana or Georgia.

4. Who is the 77-year-old poet who is referenced as a lesbian in the panel on page 74?
(a) Elsa Gidlow.
(b) Marie Antony.
(c) Jennifer Roberts.
(d) Christine Roth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the "smooth-talking fortune hunter" in The Heiress that the author describes in Chapter 3?

2. What does the word "lacuna" mean as used in Chapter 6?

3. What was the name of Bruce Bechdel's father?

4. When did President Nixon resign as a result of the Watergate scandal?

5. Consider the following sentence from Chapter 1: "His shame inhabited our house as pervasively and invisibly as the aromatic must of aging mahogany." What literary device is used in this sentence?

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