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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color does the author describe coloring the gypsy caravan in the coloring book in Chapter 5?
(a) Midnight blue.
(b) Bright purple.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Canary yellow.

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

3. What word from Chapter 5 means resembling sunlight?
(a) Crepuscular.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Maudlin.
(d) Legerdemain.

4. In Bruce Bechdel's trial, the judge agreed to dismiss the charges against him if he did what?
(a) Made a public apology.
(b) Registered as a sex offender.
(c) Moved out of the state.
(d) Completed six months of counseling.

5. What novel by Oscar Wilde does the author allude to with the line "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it"?
(a) The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
(b) The Picture of Dorian Gray.
(c) De Profundis.
(d) A House of Pomegranates.

6. What food item from her mother's play does the author describe her family eating all summer in Chapter 6?
(a) Cucumber sandwiches.
(b) Potato salad.
(c) Roast beef sandwiches.
(d) Gingersnap cookies.

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

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

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

10. 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."

11. What was Helen Bechdel's maiden name?
(a) Fontana.
(b) Smith.
(c) Roth.
(d) Rogers.

12. What was Beth's stepmother's name?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Emily.
(c) Nancy.
(d) Helen.

13. What profession did Bruce Bechdel have other than being a teacher?
(a) He was a professional musician.
(b) He was a butcher.
(c) He was a funeral director.
(d) He was a banker.

14. 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) Rocky Raccoon and Ricky Waters.
(b) Jimmy Richards and Pauly Ocean.
(c) Billy McKean and Bobby McCool.
(d) Elsa Gidlow and James Spader.

15. On what date did Oscar Wilde face trial for sodomy and gross indecency?
(a) April 26, 1895.
(b) May 12, 1888.
(c) June 29, 1899.
(d) March 10, 1875.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play does the author describe her parents going to see at the Playhouse in Chapter 6?

2. What does the word "lacuna" mean as used in Chapter 6?

3. What television show does the author describe as "the dumbest T.V. show in the world. Next to the Brady Bunch" in Chapter 6?

4. What color did the author's father fill in the gypsy caravan with in the coloring book in Chapter 5?

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

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