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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. What does the author describe putting deadlines for on her wall calendar at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Writing in her journal.
(b) Talking to her parents.
(c) Abandoning obsessions.
(d) Completing school assignments.

2. On what day does the author describe her father's hearing in Chapter 6?
(a) August 6.
(b) September 4.
(c) May 12.
(d) June 14.

3. What is the author's mother's middle name?
(a) Anne.
(b) Michelle.
(c) Augusta.
(d) Elizabeth.

4. What author does Bechdel recall reading regarding her obsessive-compulsive disorder when she was a child?
(a) Dr. Spock.
(b) E. H. Shepard.
(c) Morris Townsend.
(d) Radclyffe Hall.

5. Whom did the author's mother get angry about Bruce wanting to invite to their home in Chapter 6?
(a) His therapist.
(b) His student.
(c) His brother.
(d) His cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away from her childhood home was the "pre-clean air act paper mill" that the author describes in Chapter 5?

2. What word from Chapter 5 means resembling sunlight?

3. Who is the author of Little Women?

4. What month was it when the author finally told her mother that she'd started her period?

5. What word from Chapter 5 means self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the author respond when she began menstruating in Chapter 6?

2. How does Bechdel describe the political atmosphere when she was 13 in Chapter 6?

3. What does the title of Chapter 5, "The Canary-Colored Caravan of Death" allude to?

4. Why does the author say that her family witnessed lots of sunrises in 1974?

5. How did the author feel about rehearsing lines with her mother in Chapter 6?

6. Why did Bruce Bechdel tell his daughter he was going to Danville in Chapter 6?

7. How does the author describe the changes in her diary in Chapter 6?

8. What symbolism can be seen in the fallen trees in Chapter 6?

9. How does the author describe her first foray into poetry in Chapter 5?

10. What does Bechdel write regarding the trial of Oscar Wilde in Chapter 6?

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