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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the author's youngest brother?
(a) Peter.
(b) John.
(c) Christian.
(d) Paul.

2. How did the author's father die?
(a) He was hit by a truck.
(b) He hung himself.
(c) He was shot on a hunting trip.
(d) He drowned in a river.

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

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

5. Over how many years does the author say her father restored their home?
(a) 15.
(b) 22.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

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

7. Of her father, the author writes in Chapter 1, "... my brothers and I were free labor. Dad considered us extensions of his own body, like" what?
(a) "Gilded wings."
(b) "Enslaved legs and arms."
(c) "Hairy fingertips."
(d) "Precision robot arms."

8. In one of the illustrated panels in Chapter 1, the author says, "When I grow up, my house is going to be all metal, like" what?
(a) "A spaceship."
(b) "A silo."
(c) "A prison."
(d) "A submarine."

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

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

11. What film does the author describe her parents taking the family to see when it opened in 1974?
(a) The Maltese Falcon.
(b) To Have and Have Not.
(c) Cassablanca.
(d) The Great Gatsby.

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

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

14. Into what war was Bruce Bechdel drafted?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) World War II.

15. When did Alison Bechdel's parents purchase their home?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1969.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of The Well of Loneliness?

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

4. To what religion did the author's mother ascribe?

5. From what children's book does the author's father's read to her in the bedtime panel in Chapter 1?

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