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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the author convince her parents to buy her hiking boots during their trip to Europe in her childhood?
(a) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Norway.

2. What author had Bruce Bechdel become immersed in the year before he died?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Marcel Proust.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

3. How old was the author when her father died?
(a) 22.
(b) 21.
(c) 19.
(d) 16.

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

5. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home is a graphic memoir that is filled with literary allusions. What book by James Joyce is alluded to with the title of Chapter 1: "Old Father, Old Artificer"?
(a) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
(b) Dubliners.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Finnegan's Wake.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Consider the following sentence from Chapter 1: "His shame inhabited our house as pervasively and invisibly as the aromatic must of aging mahogany." What literary device is used in this sentence?

3. How did the author's father die?

4. What aromas does the author describe her father having smelled of in Chapter 1?

5. As an aspect of her obsessive-compulsive disorder, what did the author avoid at all costs?

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