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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 it mean to "compose a life"?
(a) Forgetting history to embrace individualism and self-empowerment.
(b) Opening oneself up to the world.
(c) Collecting pieces from the past to understand today.
(d) Understanding how individuals are shaped by their parents.

2. Which of the following subjects is of most interest to Joan?
(a) Hiking.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Painting.
(d) Star-gazing.

3. Whose memoir was Mary working on when she first met Ellen in 1983?
(a) Her grandmother's.
(b) Her own.
(c) Her deceased brother's.
(d) Her parents'.

4. Which of the following subjects did Erik study?
(a) Childhood sexuality.
(b) Animal mating rituals.
(c) The celibacy of nuns.
(d) Cross pollination.

5. Which of the following adjectives did NOT describe Ellen when she was giving a lecture at the Bunting colloquium, which Mary attended?
(a) Professional.
(b) Flustered.
(c) Passionate.
(d) Concerned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bateson discuss at the opening of Chapter 4?

2. Which of the following nation did many of the immigrants Mary's mother worked with com from?

3. Throughout the course of the book, how many women's lives will be studied?

4. How many children did Joan and Erik have together?

5. Which of the women Mary interviewed is the oldest woman in the book?

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