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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the author describe the energy crisis and the year-round daylight savings it entailed in Chapter 5?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1972.

2. What vision compelled the author in the dream she describes in Chapter 5?
(a) A robin.
(b) A sunset.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A snake.

3. Who created the illustrations for The Wind in the Willows coloring book that the author describes in Chapter 5?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) E. M. Forster.
(c) E. H. Shepard.
(d) Gilbet Osmond.

4. What profession did Bruce Bechdel have other than being a teacher?
(a) He was a funeral director.
(b) He was a butcher.
(c) He was a banker.
(d) He was a professional musician.

5. Who wrote the play The American Dream that the author's mother is seen reading in a panel in Chapter 5?
(a) E. H. Shepard.
(b) Edward Albee.
(c) Sam Shepard.
(d) Wallace Stevens.

6. How long after Bruce Bechdel's trial did Nixon resign as President?
(a) Five days later.
(b) Two weeks later.
(c) Two days later.
(d) Three days later.

7. How old was the author when she claims her "father's secret almost surfaced" in Chapter 6?
(a) 10.
(b) 16.
(c) 13.
(d) 11.

8. What author does Bechdel describe having died in her diary entry in Chapter 6?
(a) J. R. R. Tolkien.
(b) E. H. Shepard.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) Anaïs Nin.

9. What had Bruce Bechdel been recording on the tape that the author's mother discovered after his death in Chapter 5?
(a) A book that he had written.
(b) A journal entry.
(c) A tour guide for a museum.
(d) An audition for a play.

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

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

12. On what date did Oscar Wilde face trial for sodomy and gross indecency?
(a) May 12, 1888.
(b) June 29, 1899.
(c) April 26, 1895.
(d) March 10, 1875.

13. What novel by Oscar Wilde does the author allude to with the line "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it"?
(a) De Profundis.
(b) The Picture of Dorian Gray.
(c) A House of Pomegranates.
(d) The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

14. What magazine did the author's mother give her for her 14th birthday?
(a) Reader's Digest.
(b) Cosmopolitan.
(c) People.
(d) Gentlemen's Quarterly.

15. What were the imaginary names that the author and her friend Beth used when they dressed in her father's clothing in Chapter 6?
(a) Elsa Gidlow and James Spader.
(b) Billy McKean and Bobby McCool.
(c) Rocky Raccoon and Ricky Waters.
(d) Jimmy Richards and Pauly Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day does the author describe her father's hearing in Chapter 6?

2. In Bruce Bechdel's trial, the judge agreed to dismiss the charges against him if he did what?

3. Who wrote Alison Bechdel's mother's favorite poem?

4. Who is the author of Little Women?

5. At what time of the day does Bruce Bechdel's obituary cite him as dying?

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