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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 Making and Keeping.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What devalued the role of "mother" in the mid 1900s?
(a) The fact that it was unpaid.
(b) The fact that women often hated it.
(c) The fact that fathers wanted nothing to do with it.
(d) The fact that the children often misbehaved.

2. Which of the following is NOT a building Mary claims can be "a joint composition"?
(a) A school.
(b) An office.
(c) A church.
(d) The home.

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

4. What is the only way an asymmetrical relationship to work?
(a) If one partner exerts power over the other.
(b) If both partners take what they need from the other.
(c) If both partners work individually to achieve their own happiness.
(d) If each partner gives of themselves openly and willingly.

5. How many sisters did Ellen have growing up?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alice do for a living?

2. How old was Joan at the time of her interviews for the book?

3. What does Johnnetta say asking someone to change curriculum is like?

4. Which of the following women lives in Chestnut Hill, in Boston?

5. Which popular television program filmed at Spelman College weeks before Johnnetta earned her post?

(see the answer key)

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