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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 In the Company of Friends.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bateson feel about using a recipe when cooking?
(a) She encourages women to improvise rather than follow preset plans.
(b) She believes the choice of wether or not to follow a recipe should be decided by each cook, and shouldn't be mandated by anyone.
(c) She believes following a recipe is the only way of ensuring success.
(d) She only follows recipes that have been passed down from generations of women in her family.

2. Which of the following topics is of most interest to Ellen?
(a) Homelessness.
(b) Animal welfare.
(c) World hunger.
(d) Drug safety and administration.

3. Which of the following metaphors runs through the entire first chapter of the text?
(a) That life is like building a fire.
(b) That life is like a box of chocolates.
(c) That life is like a sunset.
(d) That life is like needlework.

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

5. Which of the following best describes the way the women in the text will "compose their lives"?
(a) Improvisationally.
(b) Strictly.
(c) Traditionally.
(d) Historically.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of flower was planted on Spelman's campus in preparation for the television shoot?

2. How many role models does Bateson believe each woman should have in her life?

3. What was significant about Johnnetta's position as president of Spelman College?

4. What article of clothing did Johnnetta receive as a joke from not one but two friends after earning her position as president of Spelman College?

5. According to Bateson, in what way is modern day life similar to studying a foreign language?

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