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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How frequently do locusts appear and swarm?
(a) Every 7 years.
(b) Every 17 years.
(c) Every 10 years.
(d) Every 12 years.

2. What does the author describe putting deadlines for on her wall calendar at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Talking to her parents.
(b) Writing in her journal.
(c) Completing school assignments.
(d) Abandoning obsessions.

3. What is the author's mother's middle name?
(a) Michelle.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Anne.
(d) Augusta.

4. Where did Bruce Bechdel go to see a psychiatrist in Chapter 6?
(a) New Hope.
(b) New Brunswick.
(c) Wilmington.
(d) Danville.

5. Who is the author of Little Women?
(a) Anaïs Nin.
(b) Louisa May Alcott.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) Elsa Gidlow.

6. What were the imaginary names that the author and her friend Beth used when they dressed in her father's clothing in Chapter 6?
(a) Elsa Gidlow and James Spader.
(b) Rocky Raccoon and Ricky Waters.
(c) Jimmy Richards and Pauly Ocean.
(d) Billy McKean and Bobby McCool.

7. Where does the author describe dreaming about being with her father two nights before he died in Chapter 5?
(a) At the theater.
(b) At the Bullpen.
(c) At her childhood home.
(d) At a cemetery.

8. How many Bechdel families were listed in the phone book in the author's home town, as accounted in Chapter 5?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 26.
(d) 5.

9. 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.

10. Who wrote Alison Bechdel's mother's favorite poem?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Elsa Gidlow.
(c) T. S. Elliot.
(d) E. M. Forster.

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

12. What had Bruce Bechdel been recording on the tape that the author's mother discovered after his death in Chapter 5?
(a) A journal entry.
(b) A tour guide for a museum.
(c) A book that he had written.
(d) An audition for a play.

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

14. What was the author's favorite page in the Wind in the Willows coloring book?
(a) The pond.
(b) The river.
(c) The map.
(d) The house.

15. Who wrote the play The American Dream that the author's mother is seen reading in a panel in Chapter 5?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Sam Shepard.
(c) Edward Albee.
(d) E. H. Shepard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vision compelled the author in the dream she describes in Chapter 5?

2. What word from Chapter 5 means self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness?

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

4. How old was the author when her "actual obsessive-compulsive disorder began"?

5. What is the date on the police report that describes Bruce Bechdel's seduction of Mark Walsh in Chapter 6?

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