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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What month was it when the author finally told her mother that she'd started her period?
(a) October.
(b) September.
(c) November.
(d) December.

2. How long after Bruce Bechdel's trial did Nixon resign as President?
(a) Two days later.
(b) Five days later.
(c) Two weeks later.
(d) Three days later.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5 means resembling sunlight?

2. What was the name of Mark Douglas Walsh's brother?

3. What were the imaginary names that the author and her friend Beth used when they dressed in her father's clothing in Chapter 6?

4. How far away from her childhood home was the "pre-clean air act paper mill" that the author describes in Chapter 5?

5. What novel is the play The Heiress based on?

(see the answer key)

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