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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose memoir was Mary working on when she first met Ellen in 1983?
(a) Her parents'.
(b) Her grandmother's.
(c) Her deceased brother's.
(d) Her own.

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

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

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

5. What does Alice do for a living?
(a) She is a saleswoman.
(b) She is a pilot.
(c) She is a mechanic.
(d) She is an engineer.

6. What subject did Johnnetta study in college?
(a) Botany.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Communications.

7. What does Alice believe is the art form of the 21st century?
(a) Technology.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Gardening.

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

9. What is the only way an asymmetrical relationship to work?
(a) If each partner gives of themselves openly and willingly.
(b) If one partner exerts power over the other.
(c) If both partners take what they need from the other.
(d) If both partners work individually to achieve their own happiness.

10. What was significant about Johnnetta's position as president of Spelman College?
(a) She was the first woman to earn the post.
(b) She was the first African-American woman to earn the post.
(c) She was the first African-American AND the first woman to earn the post.
(d) She was the first African-American to earn the post.

11. What does Bateson discuss at the opening of Chapter 4?
(a) Human evolution.
(b) The balance of power in politics.
(c) Music as metaphor.
(d) The separation of church and state.

12. Which of the women Mary interviewed is the oldest woman in the book?
(a) Ellen.
(b) Alice.
(c) Joan.
(d) Johnnetta.

13. What does Johnnetta say asking someone to change curriculum is like?
(a) Asking someone to move to a graveyard.
(b) Asking someone to hand over the last cookie.
(c) Askin someone to mow their lawn.
(d) Asking someone to pull their own teeth.

14. According to Bateson, what is the danger of being the daughter of a successful father?
(a) There is too much pressure on young girls to be equally successful.
(b) Young girls believe success is only for men.
(c) There is no danger to being the daughter of a successful father.
(d) Successful men rarely encourage their daughters.

15. What do both Ellen and Steve do for a living?
(a) They are psychiatrists.
(b) They are teachers.
(c) They are painters.
(d) They are writers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following animals does Joan often compare herself to?

2. In what decade did the consciousness of women begin to be raised about inequality?

3. What subject does Mary tackle with her metaphor of a "crazy quilt"?

4. Which of the following best describes the way the women in the text will "compose their lives"?

5. Which of the following women is interested in jewelry making?

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