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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bateson claim helps a woman "discover underlying convictions that are steady throughout life"?
(a) Adhering to traditional gender roles.
(b) Extracting common ground.
(c) Living life improvisationally.
(d) Honoring generations past.

2. In what state is Spelman College located?
(a) Texas.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Georgia.

3. Which of the following art forms is NOT one Mary's grandfather collected when she was a child?
(a) Embroidery.
(b) Photography.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Paintings.

4. 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.

5. What does Bateson believe will be the result of "a commitment to constantly refocusing one's life"?
(a) Social freedom.
(b) Failure.
(c) Ultimate success.
(d) Creativity.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ellen, why do more women work in the ERs in Boston than men?

2. In which state did Mary grow up?

3. Which of the women was never an immigrant?

4. In which country did Alice grow up?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Mary, why did so many male-female relationships in the past fail?

2. What struggles did Mary encounter when interviewing her four friends for this book?

3. What is the most significant memory Alice has of her childhood in Rumania?

4. What two significant events happened when "The Cosby Show" came to film at Spelman University where Johnnetta works?

5. What type of family did Mary Catherine Bateson grow up in?

6. How does Mary use the metaphor of a "crazy quilt" to explain society?

7. What happened to Alice after Jack died unexpectedly?

8. How did Johnnetta's experiences in Cuba change her opinion of race and society?

9. What does it mean to Mary to live in "a life in flux", and how did this affect her choosing of which women would appear in the book?

10. What changed Joan's mind about whether or not she could ever be a successful dancer?

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