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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news did Barbara Kingsolver get on the day she brought her first daughter home?
(a) That her mother was furious about the book she had written.
(b) That her mother had died.
(c) That her book would be published.
(d) That her book was getting good reviews.

2. What is the difference between men's and women's salaries after a divorce, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?
(a) The men's goes up more quickly.
(b) The women's goes down faster than the men's go up.
(c) The women's goes up.
(d) The men's goes up.

3. How did Barbara Kingsolver find a way to co-exist peacefully with her environment?
(a) By shooting the animals.
(b) By trapping and relocating the animals.
(c) By getting used to animals in her garden.
(d) By enclosing her garden.

4. What does anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman say about the African savannah?
(a) That it created a certain kind of human creature, but the development would have been different in other environments.
(b) That it was the place where human development was first tested.
(c) That it was the most important environment for human development.
(d) That it was the most hostile environment humans could have encountered at that stage of development.

5. What was Camille told every day when she was four?
(a) That she was pretty.
(b) That she had a great potential.
(c) That she should keep quiet.
(d) That she was a nuisance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Barbara Kingsolver's meditations on private property relate to her thoughts about moving to Tucson?

2. What did H. H. Goddard devise?

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize monogamy?

4. What evidence does Stephen Jay Gould say George Morton ignored in his measurements?

5. Where did Barbara Kingsolver live when Camille was four?

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