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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 Partnerships.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city were Joan and Erik married?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Paris.
(c) Vienna.
(d) London.

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

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

4. Which of Mary's grandparents was a scientist?
(a) Her maternal grandmother.
(b) Her paternal grandmother.
(c) Her paternal grandfather.
(d) Her maternal grandfather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Erickson's first name?

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

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

4. What does Bateson describe as a constant riddle?

5. At which college does Johnnetta teach?

(see the answer key)

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