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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Alison Bechdel inform her parents that she was gay?
(a) By email.
(b) By phone call.
(c) By telling them in person.
(d) By letter.

2. How does the author describe her father's headstone in Chapter 2?
(a) It is a star.
(b) It is an obelisk.
(c) It is a Celtic cross.
(d) It is a Catholic cross.

3. What was the name of the class that the author was in that was taught by her father in high school?
(a) "Literature of Europe."
(b) "American Literature 101."
(c) "Contemporary Literature."
(d) "Rites of Passage."

4. How old was Alison Bechdel when she realized she was a lesbian?
(a) 12.
(b) 19.
(c) 22.
(d) 16.

5. The author compares her aesthetic to her father's in Chapter 1, saying that she was Spartan to her father's what?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Athenian.
(c) Egalitarian.
(d) Victorian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color did the author's father fill in the gypsy caravan with in the coloring book in Chapter 5?

2. Where was Bruce Bechdel when he died?

3. Whom does the author describe Athena visiting to nudge him to find his long-lost father in Chapter 7?

4. How many Bechdel families were listed in the phone book in the author's home town, as accounted in Chapter 5?

5. Into what war was Bruce Bechdel drafted?

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