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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 long before her father's death did Bechdel come out to her parents as gay?
(a) 1 week earlier.
(b) 2 months earlier.
(c) 4 months earlier.
(d) 2 weeks earlier.

2. Where did the author's mother study acting?
(a) New Brunswick.
(b) New York City.
(c) Ottawa.
(d) Miami.

3. On what date did the author receive a message to contact her mother immediately because her father had been killed?
(a) 6/29/80.
(b) 12/1/75.
(c) 5/3/76.
(d) 7/2/80.

4. What author had Bruce Bechdel become immersed in the year before he died?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Marcel Proust.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

5. The author writes in Chapter 1 that "In the circus, acrobatics where one person lies on the floor balancing another are called" what?
(a) "Epicurian Games."
(b) "Icarian Games."
(c) "Homeric Games."
(d) "Daedalus Games."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the home where Alison Bechdel grew up?

2. The author says of her father in Chapter 1, "He used his skillful artifice not to make things, but to make things appear to be" what?

3. In one of the illustrated panels in Chapter 1, the author says, "When I grow up, my house is going to be all metal, like" what?

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

5. What does the author describe her father rinsing her with in the bathtub as a child in Chapter 1?

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