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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. How many Bechdel families were listed in the phone book in the author's home town, as accounted in Chapter 5?
(a) 5.
(b) 26.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.

2. How frequently do locusts appear and swarm?
(a) Every 7 years.
(b) Every 12 years.
(c) Every 17 years.
(d) Every 10 years.

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

4. By the end of what month does the author say her "earnest diary entries had given way to the implicit lie of the blank page" in Chapter 6?
(a) July.
(b) November.
(c) December.
(d) March.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what street did the author grow up?

2. What author does Bechdel recall reading regarding her obsessive-compulsive disorder when she was a child?

3. How long after Bruce Bechdel's trial did Nixon resign as President?

4. What is the date on the police report that describes Bruce Bechdel's seduction of Mark Walsh in Chapter 6?

5. The author compares the Appalachian ridges of her region with what Roman defense fortification in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the dream in the beginning of Chapter 5. What symbolism can be seen in the dream?

3. How did the author overcome her obsessive-compulsive tendencies?

4. When did Alison Bechdel's obsessive-compulsive tendencies begin to appear? What did they entail?

5. What is the significance of the locusts that the author describes in Chapter 6?

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

7. What is revealed of Bruce Bechdel's obituary in Chapter 5?

8. With whom did Alison Bechdel and her brothers go to stay for several days in Chapter 6? Why?

9. What is alluded to in the title of Chapter 6, "The Ideal Husband"?

10. What impacts of her parents' "creative solitude" does the author describe in Chapter 5?

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