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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What classic movie with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed does the author allude to in Chapter 1?
(a) Vertigo.
(b) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
(c) Rear Window.
(d) It's a Wonderful Life.

2. What term from Chapter 5 refers to a disorder characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements primarily affecting the face, hands and feet?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Saint Vitus Dance.
(c) Cerebral palsy.
(d) Tuberculosis.

3. The author says in Chapter 3, "Dad was passionate about many writers, but he had a particular reverence for" whom?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

4. When did Alison Bechdel's parents purchase their home?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1972.

5. On what street did the author grow up?
(a) Riverview Avenue.
(b) Anderson Street.
(c) Maple Avenue.
(d) Willow Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5 means resembling sunlight?

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

3. Where was the author in Europe when she convinced her parents for the right to trade a tank suit for shorts at the beach?

4. What was the name of Bruce Bechdel's mother?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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