View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 Opening to the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary claim is the excuse given to young girls to keep them out of science?
(a) Science is dangerous.
(b) They are unable to do math.
(c) Science is a boy's club.
(d) They are intellectually incapable of thinking without their emotions.

2. Which popular television program filmed at Spelman College weeks before Johnnetta earned her post?
(a) Sanford and Sons
(b) Diff'rent Strokes.
(c) The Parkers.
(d) The Cosby Show.

3. According to Bateson, what is the danger of being the daughter of a successful father?
(a) There is too much pressure on young girls to be equally successful.
(b) There is no danger to being the daughter of a successful father.
(c) Successful men rarely encourage their daughters.
(d) Young girls believe success is only for men.

4. According to Bateson, in what way is modern day life similar to studying a foreign language?
(a) Both can be disorientating and alienating.
(b) Both require studious exploration f or success.
(c) Both combine familiar components in unique ways.
(d) Both transplant learners into unexpected terrain.

5. Which of Bateson's parents left for long work duties during the war?
(a) Neither of her parents.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Both her parents.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city were Joan and Erik married?

2. What does Alice believe is the art form of the 21st century?

3. What color is Ellen's hair?

4. Which of the following best describes the way the women in the text will "compose their lives"?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 269 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample