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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is necessary to produce a fruitful academic relationship?
(a) One must take the lead in all acadmic social situations.
(b) One mustn't pose a threat to their colleagues.
(c) One must critique the other's work.
(d) One must acadmically stimulate their colleagues.

2. Why does Mary claim the differences between men and women are important?
(a) Because they teach us about respect.
(b) Because they teach us about strength.
(c) Because they teach us the value of difference.
(d) Because they teach us the value of team work.

3. What does Bateson claim is the unifying thread of all the women she discusses in the book?
(a) They are all professionally successful and have wisdom to pass on.
(b) They are all partners in highly successful marriages.
(c) They are all hopeless failures in life, despite having passion for their individual arts.
(d) They have all faced frustration and difficult choices.

4. Which of the women in the book does Bateson claim is the least domestic and never had children?
(a) Alice.
(b) Joan.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Johnnetta.

5. What does Bateson believe will be the result of "a commitment to constantly refocusing one's life"?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Social freedom.
(c) Ultimate success.
(d) Failure.

6. What is the name of Jack's wife?
(a) Alice.
(b) Jean.
(c) Mary.
(d) Linda.

7. How old was Alice when her younger brother was born?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Ten.

8. What activity brings Mary and Barkev together, closer than they were before they were first married?
(a) Love making.
(b) Traveling.
(c) Culinary courses.
(d) Child-rearing.

9. Which of the following women had an obsession with the gypsies as a child?
(a) Joan.
(b) Ellen.
(c) Alice.
(d) Johnnetta.

10. In what country did Johnnetta first experience that race is not "forever and ever"?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Russia.
(d) Nicaragua.

11. In what year did Johnnetta and her husband move to Liberia?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1984.

12. At which hospital did Joan first create an activities program?
(a) Higgs.
(b) Siggs.
(c) Diggs.
(d) Riggs.

13. What do both Ellen and Steve do for a living?
(a) They are painters.
(b) They are writers.
(c) They are teachers.
(d) They are psychiatrists.

14. What part of the quilt provides continuity?
(a) The trim.
(b) The pieces.
(c) The backing.
(d) The needle and thread.

15. On the whole, how does Bateson believe American society treats marriage?
(a) With no respect.
(b) Romantically.
(c) Stoically.
(d) Comedically.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which state did Mary grow up?

2. Which of the following values does Bateson say is "inappropriate in today's constantly changing world"?

3. In what state is Spelman College located?

4. Which of Mary's grandparents was a scientist?

5. How was the MIT Alice was very close to killed in New York?

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