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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Alison Bechdel's parents purchase their home?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1972.

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

4. Where was Bruce Bechdel when he died?
(a) His mother's house.
(b) Route 80.
(c) The funeral home.
(d) Route 150.

5. Where did Bruce Bechdel marry his wife?
(a) Germany.
(b) Italy.
(c) Spain.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the "cultured, dissipated, and penniless European art collector" that the heroine marries in The Portrait of a Lady?

2. What interstate does the author describe having been blasted through the ridge beyond hers in Chapter 5?

3. The author directly correlates the embellishments of her childhood home to what in Chapter 1?

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

5. What classic movie with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed does the author allude to in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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