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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 Vicissitudes of Commitment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does Mary describe women who are multi-taskers?
(a) As people with unfair burdens.
(b) As people living multiple lives.
(c) As people constantly solving puzzles.
(d) As people with split personalities.

2. Which of the following minority groups does Bateson NOT explicitly discuss in her explanation of the inequalities in society?
(a) Women.
(b) Latinos.
(c) African-Americans.
(d) Asian-Americans.

3. What does Bateson claim is the next step to improving societal relations?
(a) Recognizing the values in different societies and incorporating those values into our own society.
(b) Mandating societal reform to ensure equality for all.
(c) Traveling the world to understand the ways different societies work.
(d) Returning to the societal precedents set into place by our forefathers in the Constitution.

4. Alongside her activities program, what else does Joan believe her patients need to heal?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Love.
(d) Time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of the following countries did Mary and her husband NEVER live?

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

3. According to Bateson, what does American society value above all else?

4. What language is "The Ode of Imru'u I-Qays" written in?

5. Which of Bateson's parents left for long work duties during the war?

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