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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Mary claim is the best type of relationship?
2. What does Bateson believe will be the result of "a commitment to constantly refocusing one's life"?
3. Which of the women Mary interviewed is the youngest woman in the book?
4. What does Johnnetta say asking someone to change curriculum is like?
5. What type of poetry was Mary studying when she first met her husband, Barkev?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what ways does Bateson use riddles to express the way individuals identify their personal convictions and ideals?
2. In what ways does Bateson claim she puts her husband's needs before her own?
3. How do Joan and Erik collaborate on each other's professional projects?
4. How did travel affect Mary Bateson's relationship with her husband, Barkev?
5. According to Bateson, what does it mean to have a symmetrical relationship?
6. According to Johnnetta, what does the term "tweeded" mean in academia?
7. According to Mary, why did so many male-female relationships in the past fail?
8. According to Bateson, what are the benefits of cooking without a recipe?
9. What did Mary learn about society while visiting her mother's work with her?
10. What struggles did Mary encounter when interviewing her four friends for this book?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In many ways, composing an identity is much like composing a life. Fist, describe the way most individuals compose their own identity. Do people generally have one or many identities? Choose one woman from the book and list the characteristics of her identity or identities. In what ways is does this formation of identity inform the title of the book? In what way is composed identity similar to a composed life? Be sure to include examples from the text to help strengthen your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the book, Mary describes the different ways women must divide their days in order to accomplish everything that needs to be accomplished. First, describe at least four different ways most women must divide their days. How does this division differ from the division of their husbands? What are the benefits of being a mulit-tasker? What are the downfalls? Be sure to include examples from the text to help strengthen your arguments.
Essay Topic 3
In the opening of the text, author Mary Catherin Bateson discusses the ways the role of women in the household has changed in today's modern times. First, describe the traditional role of women. Then, compare and contrast that role to the role Bateson describes as the role of the "modern" woman. Finally, choose one woman whose life is explored in the text and describe how that woman's life emulates Bateson's modern woman. Do you think this woman is happy in her improvisational life? Why or why not? Be sure to include examples from the text to help strengthen your arguments.
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