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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did F. Scott Fitzgerald die?
(a) He drowned.
(b) He was in a car accident.
(c) He had a heart attack.
(d) He swallowed a bottle lid.

3. The title of Chapter 3, ""That Old Catastrophe," is an allusion to what poem by Wallace Stevens?
(a) "Odysseus."
(b) "A Nail in the Coffin."
(c) "Two Roads Diverged."
(d) "Sunday Morning."

4. What gift does the author describe having bought for herself after receiving a letter from her mother after coming out in Chapter 3?
(a) A Swiss army knife.
(b) A pair of earrings.
(c) A book.
(d) A men's suit.

5. Who is the heroine in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady?
(a) Marie Antoinette.
(b) Emily Wharton.
(c) Isabel Archer.
(d) Edna Waldrop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What classic movie with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed does the author allude to in Chapter 1?

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

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 did Bruce Bechdel teach?

5. What is the date printed on the passport photo from the author's trip to Europe with her family in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the title of Chapter 3, "That Old Catastrophe" allude to? Why is this significant?

2. What mythological allusions does the author make in Chapter 1?

3. How and why does the author allude to It's a Wonderful Life in Chapter 1?

4. How does the author describe Joan in Chapter 3?

5. From what narrative perspective is Fun Home related? Why do you think the author chose this perspective?

6. How does the author describe her "coming out" to her parents in Chapter 3?

7. How does the author describe her father's love of gardening in Chapter 4?

8. What does the title of Chapter 4, "In the Shadow of the Young Girls in Flower" allude to?

9. How would you describe the graphics style of Fun Home?

10. How does the author compare herself with her father in Chapter 1?

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