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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 3 and 4.
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 was getting good reviews.
(d) That her book would be published.
2. What is the 'Tide of Tucson'?
(a) The rhythm by which the creature moved about.
(b) The threat that global warming would bring the ocean to Arizona.
(c) The rhythm of the creature's hunger and dormancy.
(d) The rhythm of visitors in Barbara Kingsolver's house.
3. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe the photos that represent her past, now that she's moved to Tucson?
(a) Artificial photos.
(b) Incomplete photos.
(c) Doctored photos.
(d) Perfect photos.
4. 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 the first thing to distinguish humans from other creatures.
(d) That it was more important than is thought.
5. What resulted from the need to hunt, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) The need to eliminate competitors for game.
(b) The need to walk upright.
(c) The need to communicate.
(d) The need to wage war.
Short Answer Questions
1. What would the creature do after these periods of dormancy?
2. How do Barbara Kingsolver's meditations on private property relate to her thoughts about moving to Tucson?
3. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose after twenty years in Tucson?
4. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose when she moved to Tucson?
5. How did private property develop, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
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