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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Barbara Kingsolver say it would take her mother a full week to do?
(a) Write a short story.
(b) Make five days' pay.
(c) Balance the checkbook.
(d) Clean and launder.

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

3. Where has Barbara Kingsolver come from, to Arizona?
(a) New York.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) California.
(d) Kentucky.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she spent as little time as possible on?

2. What were Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about being a 'rock star'?

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the priority in college?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver expect would take her away from the band?

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