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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 Enriching the Earth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the roadblocks of separation and division hinder a woman from doing?
(a) Making money.
(b) Respecting religion.
(c) Being creative.
(d) Raising a family.

2. Which of the women coined the term "tweeded"?
(a) Joan.
(b) Alice.
(c) Johnnetta.
(d) Mary.

3. According to Bateson, in what way is modern day life similar to studying a foreign language?
(a) Both require studious exploration f or success.
(b) Both transplant learners into unexpected terrain.
(c) Both combine familiar components in unique ways.
(d) Both can be disorientating and alienating.

4. Which woman struggles with sibling rivalry, and dividing her attention among her children?
(a) Alice.
(b) Ellen.
(c) Joan.
(d) Mary.

5. Which of the following topics most interested Mary Bateson's father in his writing?
(a) Ecology.
(b) Entomology.
(c) Ethereal beings.
(d) Ergonomics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary claim is the result of changing one's identity?

2. Which of the following art forms is NOT one Mary's grandfather collected when she was a child?

3. In what country was Erik, Joan's husband, born?

4. What is the only way an asymmetrical relationship to work?

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

(see the answer key)

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