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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the author's mother tell her they might move because of her father's court hearing in Chapter 6?
(a) Mississippi or Arkansas.
(b) California or Oregon.
(c) Louisiana or Georgia.
(d) New York or Massachusetts.

2. Who created the illustrations for The Wind in the Willows coloring book that the author describes in Chapter 5?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Gilbet Osmond.
(c) E. H. Shepard.
(d) E. M. Forster.

3. What does the word "lacuna" mean as used in Chapter 6?
(a) A gap.
(b) A book.
(c) A leap.
(d) A phrase.

4. What is the date on the police report that describes Bruce Bechdel's seduction of Mark Walsh in Chapter 6?
(a) June 29, 1967.
(b) September 3, 1972.
(c) June 20, 1974.
(d) March 3, 1971.

5. How far away from her childhood home was the "pre-clean air act paper mill" that the author describes in Chapter 5?
(a) 10 miles away.
(b) 30 miles away.
(c) 20 miles away.
(d) 5 miles away.

6. The author compares the Appalachian ridges of her region with what Roman defense fortification in Chapter 5?
(a) Hadrian's Wall.
(b) The Wall of China.
(c) The Aqueduct.
(d) The Panama Canal.

7. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) "Sunday Morning."
(b) "The Canary-Colored Caravan of Death."
(c) "A Walk in the Woods."
(d) "The Antihero's Journey."

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

9. How old was the author when her "actual obsessive-compulsive disorder began"?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 13.

10. What grade does the author describe getting on her algebra test in her diary entry in Chapter 6?
(a) 58.
(b) 77.
(c) 98.
(d) 69.

11. What was the name of Bruce Bechdel's father?
(a) Henry.
(b) Homer.
(c) Marcus.
(d) Claude.

12. What magazine did the author's mother give her for her 14th birthday?
(a) Gentlemen's Quarterly.
(b) Reader's Digest.
(c) People.
(d) Cosmopolitan.

13. On what street did the author grow up?
(a) Riverview Avenue.
(b) Willow Street.
(c) Anderson Street.
(d) Maple Avenue.

14. Where did Bruce Bechdel attend college?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Ohio State University.
(c) Pennsylvania State University.
(d) Rutgers University.

15. By the end of what month does the author say her "earnest diary entries had given way to the implicit lie of the blank page" in Chapter 6?
(a) November.
(b) March.
(c) July.
(d) December.

Short Answer Questions

1. What food item from her mother's play does the author describe her family eating all summer in Chapter 6?

2. The author writes in Chapter 6, "It's said that homes with pubescent children in them are more prone to" what?

3. What month was it when the author finally told her mother that she'd started her period?

4. What is the author's mother's middle name?

5. What was the Alison Bechdel's mother's favorite poem?

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