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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Ulysses.
(b) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
(c) Dubliners.
(d) Finnegan's Wake.

2. How does the author describe her father's headstone in Chapter 2?
(a) It is a Catholic cross.
(b) It is a Celtic cross.
(c) It is an obelisk.
(d) It is a star.

3. Why did the author complain about the wallpaper her father chose for her room in Chapter 1?
(a) It was solid red.
(b) It was green and white dots.
(c) It was pink with flowers.
(d) It was blue with stripes.

4. Of her father, the author writes in Chapter 1, "... my brothers and I were free labor. Dad considered us extensions of his own body, like" what?
(a) "Gilded wings."
(b) "Hairy fingertips."
(c) "Enslaved legs and arms."
(d) "Precision robot arms."

5. Into what war was Bruce Bechdel drafted?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Korean War.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long before her father's death did Bechdel come out to her parents as gay?

2. What does the author claim was her father's passion but not his job in Chapter 1?

3. When was Bruce Bechdel born?

4. Where did the author's mother study acting?

5. How long prior to his death did Bruce Bechdel's wife ask him for a divorce?

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