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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose when she moved to Tucson?
(a) Her connections to her family.
(b) Her memory of her time with her family.
(c) Her sense of lived history with her living family.
(d) Her affection for her family.

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver think her creature might want to change?
(a) His atmosphere.
(b) His 'uniform'.
(c) His feathers.
(d) His color.

3. When was Barbara Kingsolver recruited by the librarian?
(a) Her junior year.
(b) Her sophomore year.
(c) Her freshman year.
(d) Her senior year.

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver get instead of what she'd asked for, at Christmas?
(a) A book.
(b) A stuffed animal.
(c) Rain boots.
(d) A weekend away.

5. What is the purpose of revisionist history, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) To describe the randomness of key events in human history.
(b) To include other voices than white males' in historical narratives.
(c) To tell the stories of white males from new perspectives.
(d) To describe history as a process of progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would the creature do after these periods of dormancy?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver find out about the creature's spells of dormancy?

3. Where does Barbara Kingsolver live, in Tucson?

4. What is the difference between men's and women's salaries after a divorce, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?

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