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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 Caretaking.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mary, why did many women get married before the intellectual movement?
(a) Because the government cut taxes for married couples.
(b) Because women back then loved to have children.
(c) Because society looked down on women workers.
(d) Because they had no other choice.

2. What type of marriage does Jack have with his wife?
(a) An open marriage - they are allowed to date other people.
(b) A boring relationship in which they live more like roommates than lovers.
(c) A disastrous, abusive relationship.
(d) A supportive, loving, and faithful marriage.

3. What does Bateson claim is the unifying thread of all the women she discusses in the book?
(a) They are all professionally successful and have wisdom to pass on.
(b) They are all partners in highly successful marriages.
(c) They have all faced frustration and difficult choices.
(d) They are all hopeless failures in life, despite having passion for their individual arts.

4. Whose home does Mary think "signifies society's ideas about status, education, and family"?
(a) Joan's.
(b) Ellen.
(c) Alice.
(d) Johnnetta's.

5. Which of the women in the book regularly starts their evening meals with an Armenian prayer?
(a) Joan.
(b) Mary.
(c) Alice.
(d) Ellen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary compare to "an obese bully"?

2. Which of the women was never an immigrant?

3. Which of the following riddles is NOT included in the first chapter of the text?

4. Which of the women in the book are looking for "symmetrical relationships"?

5. Which woman did Mary have a particularly difficult time connecting with during her interviews?

(see the answer key)

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