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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author compares her aesthetic to her father's in Chapter 1, saying that she was Spartan to her father's what?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Egalitarian.
(c) Athenian.
(d) Victorian.

2. Where was the author in Europe when she convinced her parents for the right to trade a tank suit for shorts at the beach?
(a) Paris.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) London.
(d) Cannes.

3. What play were Bruce Bechdel and his wife performing in when they met?
(a) The Taming of the Shrew.
(b) All's Well that Ends Well.
(c) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
(d) The Tragedy of Macbeth.

4. To what religion did the author's mother ascribe?
(a) Baptist.
(b) Christian Scientist.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Episcopalian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the author receive a message to contact her mother immediately because her father had been killed?

2. How far away was the author in college when her father 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. Who is the "cultured, dissipated, and penniless European art collector" that the heroine marries in The Portrait of a Lady?

5. Over how many years does the author say her father restored their home?

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