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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the male leading role in the play where the author's parents met?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Mr. Darcy.
(d) Petruchio.

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

3. What does the word "qualmish" mean in Chapter 3?
(a) Nauseated.
(b) Insistent.
(c) Worried.
(d) Gregarious.

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

5. What did Bruce Bechdel teach?
(a) Biology.
(b) English.
(c) Drama.
(d) Calculus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Alison Bechdel when she realized she was a lesbian?

2. What author had Bruce Bechdel become immersed in the year before he died?

3. What is the date printed on the passport photo from the author's trip to Europe with her family in Chapter 3?

4. The title of Chapter 3, ""That Old Catastrophe," is an allusion to what poem by Wallace Stevens?

5. The author compares her aesthetic to her father's in Chapter 1, saying that she was Spartan to her father's what?

(see the answer key)

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