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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 23, 24 and 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Barbara Kingsolver live when Camille was four?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tucson.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Spain.

2. What other developments does Barbara Kingsolver say resulted from hunting?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Sacrifice.
(c) Social structures.
(d) Tool making.

3. What lesson does Barbara Kingsolver say she is teaching her daughter?
(a) That a woman can benefit by divorce.
(b) That a woman can be head of a household.
(c) That a woman has freedom to choose her sexual partners.
(d) That a marriage can remain intact through changes.

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say her readers assume about her work?
(a) That she bases her characters on people in her life.
(b) That she is writing for admiration.
(c) That she writes from newspaper clippings.
(d) That she is making everything up.

5. What predisposes human males to infidelity, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) The desire to further one's civilization.
(b) The desire to possess females.
(c) The desire to gain status.
(d) The desire to spread genes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the 'Tide of Tucson'?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver accuse the American military of doing to Iraq in 1991?

3. What was the consequence of the librarian's relationship with Barbara Kingsolver?

4. What were Barbara Kingsolver's friends doing in Africa?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver give her creature regularly?

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