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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what children's book does the author's father's read to her in the bedtime panel in Chapter 1?
(a) Alice in Wonderland.
(b) Just So Stories.
(c) April Rabbits.
(d) James and the Giant Peach.

2. Who is the 77-year-old poet who is referenced as a lesbian in the panel on page 74?
(a) Elsa Gidlow.
(b) Jennifer Roberts.
(c) Marie Antony.
(d) Christine Roth.

3. What does the word "lacuna" mean as used in Chapter 6?
(a) A leap.
(b) A gap.
(c) A book.
(d) A phrase.

4. In what year did Bruce Bechdel die?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1977.

5. Who is the playwright for Morning's at Seven, which the author recalls her mother rehearsing for in Chapter 5?
(a) Wallace Shawn.
(b) Gerald Kimble.
(c) Paul Osborn.
(d) Edward Albee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What setting is depicted in the panel that opens Chapter 7?

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

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 month was it when the author got her first period?

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