Fun Home Quizzes

Fun Home Quiz 1

By Meghan Joyce Tozer · Edited by A. Boghani · Last reviewed February 25, 2015

1 What game did Alison and Bruce Bechdel play together when she was a child?

Airplane

Soccer

Chess

Checkers
2 What is Bruce obsessed with decorating and improving?

His own body, with tattoos

His shed

The family home

His sports car
3 What type of house do the Bechdels live in (when Alison is a child)?

A tiny New York City apartment

A Gothic Revival mansion

A cookie-cutter suburban house

A sprawling ranch
4 To which Christmas-themed film does Bechdel compare her childhood?

It's a Wonderful Life

A Christmas Story

Charlie Brown's Christmas

Frosty the Snowman
5 What religion do the Bechdels practice?

Mormonism

Catholicism

Judaism

Buddhism
6 What profession do Bruce and Helen Bechdel share?

They are both English teachers

They are both florists

They are both professional actors

They own a real estate company together
7 Which member of the Bechdel family has a violent temper?

Bruce

Alison

Christian

Helen
8 What does Alison feel lurking around the family house?

The spirits of the funeral home cadavers

Her father's shame

Her mother's humiliation

Ghosts of dead pioneers
9 What does Helen warn her children not to mention to their father?

Their suspicion that he is gay

Comments about the house

His appearance

Their favorite books
10 What does Bruce Bechdel often wear around the house?

A bathrobe

Old sneakers

Cut-off jean shorts

A Christmas sweater
11 Which character is alone in suspecting that Bruce's death wasn't an accident?

Elly

Helen

Alison

John
12 What had Bruce been reading before his death?

"The Odyssey"

"The Wind in the Willows"

"A Happy Death"

A copy of "Reader's Digest"
13 What happens two weeks before Bruce's death?

Helen asks him for a divorce

He comes out as gay to everyone in his life

He leaves Helen

He has to sell the funeral home
14 What shape is Bruce's headstone?

An obelisk

He was cremated

A rectangle

An oval
15 Who does not live in the same geographic area as the Bechdels?

Elly

Bruce's brother Ed

Bruce's sister Sue

Bruce's mother
16 Where do Bruce and Helen get married?

In Europe

In New York City

In Pennsylvania

In the funeral home
17 Where do Bruce and Helen live for almost a year as expatriates?

Paris

West Germany

Vancouver

Kenya
18 Why do Bruce and Helen have to return to Pennsylvania after getting married?

They are kicked out of West Germany

They run out of money and need to take jobs in the funeral home

Helen wants to give birth in the United States

Bruce's father dies and they have to run his business
19 Which cartoon does Alison relate to when she is growing up?

Peanuts

Looney Tunes

Superman

The Addams Family
20 Which instrument does Helen play?

The drums

The clarinet

The flute

The piano
21 What of the following is NOT something that Alison and her brothers played with in the funeral home?

The nesting flower stands

The caskets

The folding chairs

The smelling salts
22 Who lives in the same building as the funeral home?

Grandmother

Grandfather

Bruce

Elly
23 What does Alison's paternal grandmother do for Alison and her brothers when they spend the night at her place?

Plays chess with them

Tells them a story

Shows them the dead bodies

Sings for them
24 Who saves Bruce from the mud when he was a young boy?

Grandmother

Mort Dehaas

His brother Ed

His father
25 How does Alison react when she sees her first cadaver?

She vomits.

She runs away screaming.

She bursts into tears.

She shows no emotion.

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