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

2. According to Mary, what does a quilt keep out?
(a) The cold.
(b) Sickness.
(c) Racism.
(d) Change.

3. At which college does Johnnetta teach?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Spelman.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Cambridge.

4. What subject did Johnnetta study in college?
(a) Botany.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Communications.

5. What does Bateson claim is the next step to improving societal relations?
(a) Traveling the world to understand the ways different societies work.
(b) Recognizing the values in different societies and incorporating those values into our own society.
(c) Mandating societal reform to ensure equality for all.
(d) Returning to the societal precedents set into place by our forefathers in the Constitution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following art forms is NOT one Mary's grandfather collected when she was a child?

2. What color is Ellen's hair?

3. How old was Alice when her younger brother was born?

4. In which state did Mary grow up?

5. What does Mary compare to "an obese bully"?

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