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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gift did the author's mother give to Joan immediately after Bruce's funeral?
(a) A bracelet.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A book.
(d) A ring.

2. Where was the author in Europe when she convinced her parents for the right to trade a tank suit for shorts at the beach?
(a) Cannes.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Amsterdam.

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

4. What is the name of Alison Bechdel's mother?
(a) Emily.
(b) Helen.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Eleanor.

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

6. In what year did Bruce Bechdel die?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1975.

7. To what religion did the author's mother ascribe?
(a) Christian Scientist.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Episcopalian.

8. What is the date printed on the passport photo from the author's trip to Europe with her family in Chapter 3?
(a) June 29, 1967.
(b) September 1, 1971.
(c) June 3, 1969.
(d) March 13, 1963.

9. Who is the heroine in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady?
(a) Emily Wharton.
(b) Marie Antoinette.
(c) Edna Waldrop.
(d) Isabel Archer.

10. What author had Bruce Bechdel become immersed in the year before he died?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Marcel Proust.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

11. Who is the author of Delta of Venus?
(a) Radclyffe Hall.
(b) Elsa Gidlow.
(c) Anaïs Nin.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

12. Who is the "cultured, dissipated, and penniless European art collector" that the heroine marries in The Portrait of a Lady?
(a) Morris Townsend.
(b) Gilbet Osmond.
(c) William Anderson.
(d) James Fletcher.

13. What aromas does the author describe her father having smelled of in Chapter 1?
(a) Car grease and toothpaste and soap.
(b) Sawdust and sweat and designer cologne.
(c) Fish, eggs, and laundry.
(d) Laundry soap, wool, and attic dust.

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

15. What childhood fictional character does Joan describe as "a total imperialist" in the panel from page 80?
(a) Christopher Robin.
(b) Mickey Mouse.
(c) Alice.
(d) Jiminy Cricket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the home where Alison Bechdel grew up?

2. What word from Chapter 1 refers to skillful use of one's hands when performing conjuring tricks?

3. How did the author's father die?

4. How did F. Scott Fitzgerald die?

5. What does the author describe her father rinsing her with in the bathtub as a child in Chapter 1?

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