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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author describes her childhood home as being built in a brief moment of wealth from the lumber industry in what year?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1911.

3. The author directly correlates the embellishments of her childhood home to what in Chapter 1?
(a) Truth.
(b) Lies.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Doll houses.

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

5. How old was the author when her father died?
(a) 21.
(b) 22.
(c) 16.
(d) 19.

6. Where did the author convince her parents to buy her hiking boots during their trip to Europe in her childhood?
(a) France.
(b) Norway.
(c) Italy.
(d) Switzerland.

7. Who is the author of The Well of Loneliness?
(a) Radclyffe Hall.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Morris Townsend.
(d) Elsa Gidlow.

8. 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) Ulysses.
(c) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
(d) Dubliners.

9. Where did the author's mother study acting?
(a) Miami.
(b) New York City.
(c) Ottawa.
(d) New Brunswick.

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

11. From what children's book does the author's father's read to her in the bedtime panel in Chapter 1?
(a) Just So Stories.
(b) Alice in Wonderland.
(c) April Rabbits.
(d) James and the Giant Peach.

12. Where did Bruce Bechdel marry his wife?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Italy.

13. What kind of truck was involved in Bruce Bechdel's death?
(a) A Sunbeam Bread truck.
(b) A Duncan Hines truck.
(c) A Getty Gas truck.
(d) A Borden Milk truck.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did F. Scott Fitzgerald die?

3. What does the author claim was her father's passion but not his job in Chapter 1?

4. What is the name of the author's youngest brother?

5. The author says in Chapter 1 that being raised by her father was not like being raised by Jimmy Stewart but by whom?

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