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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase began creeping into the author's journal entries in April, according to Bechdel in Chapter 5?
(a) "On a day."
(b) "Perhaps."
(c) "Too soon."
(d) "I think."

2. 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?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Literary allusion.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

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

4. What college freshman English class does the author describe having confounded her in Chapter 7?
(a) American Literature 101.
(b) Rites of Passage.
(c) Mythology and Archetypal Experience.
(d) Literature of Europe.

5. Who is the focus of the first three chapters of the novel Ulysses?
(a) James Fletcher.
(b) Morris Townsend.
(c) Gilbet Osmond.
(d) Stephen Dedalus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "lesbian-feminist singer" is described as having a concert in Chapter 7?

2. What television show does the author describe as "the dumbest T.V. show in the world. Next to the Brady Bunch" in Chapter 6?

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

4. Who wrote Alison Bechdel's mother's favorite poem?

5. What does the author describe Richard as illustrating a children's filmstrip about in Chapter 7?

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