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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Helen Bechdel's maiden name?
(a) Rogers.
(b) Smith.
(c) Roth.
(d) Fontana.

2. What was the author's favorite page in the Wind in the Willows coloring book?
(a) The house.
(b) The map.
(c) The pond.
(d) The river.

3. Of what material was Bruce Bechtel's tombstone made?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Fieldstone.
(c) Granite.
(d) Marble.

4. What kind of truck was involved in Bruce Bechdel's death?
(a) A Getty Gas truck.
(b) A Duncan Hines truck.
(c) A Borden Milk truck.
(d) A Sunbeam Bread truck.

5. 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) "Enslaved legs and arms."
(b) "Precision robot arms."
(c) "Gilded wings."
(d) "Hairy fingertips."

Short Answer 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"?

2. What childhood fictional character does Joan describe as "a total imperialist" in the panel from page 80?

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

4. What profession did Bruce Bechdel have other than being a teacher?

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

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