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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was F. Scott Fitzgerald when he died?
(a) 35.
(b) 44.
(c) 49.
(d) 51.

3. What aromas does the author describe her father having smelled of in Chapter 1?
(a) Car grease and toothpaste and soap.
(b) Fish, eggs, and laundry.
(c) Laundry soap, wool, and attic dust.
(d) Sawdust and sweat and designer cologne.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the author's brother who is a year younger than her?

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

3. In what role was the author's mother performing in the play when she met her husband?

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

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

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