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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. What was the name of Joan's first book?
(a) "The Universal Quilt".
(b) "The Universal Bead".
(c) "The Universal Thread".
(d) "The Universal Button".

2. Throughout the course of the book, how many women's lives will be studied?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

3. What does Bateson describe as a constant riddle?
(a) Life.
(b) Gender roles.
(c) Sex.
(d) Love.

4. What type of flower was planted on Spelman's campus in preparation for the television shoot?
(a) Roses..
(b) Impatiens.
(c) Gardenias.
(d) Tulips.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bateson claim helps a woman "discover underlying convictions that are steady throughout life"?

2. Which of the women Mary interviewed is the youngest woman in the book?

3. What does Alice do for a living?

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

5. Whose memoir was Mary working on when she first met Ellen in 1983?

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