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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the library recruit Barbara Kingsolver for?
(a) Raising money for the library.
(b) Organizing the library.
(c) Evaluating the books in the library.
(d) Buying new books for the library.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?
(a) That it was the first evidence of social evolution influencing species evolution.
(b) That it was the basis for all human religions that followed.
(c) That it was more important than is thought.
(d) That it was the first thing to distinguish humans from other creatures.

4. What issues does Barbara Kingsolver say she learned about through the librarian?
(a) Militarism.
(b) Racism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Abortion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What development does Barbara Kingsolver describe as a survival tool people acquired 'in the beginning'?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver think her creature might want to change?

3. What made Barbara Kingsolver think that the creature was dead?

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver get instead of what she'd asked for, at Christmas?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she was looking for in Tucson?

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