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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. Who discovered Barbara Kingsolver's contraband?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her dog.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her daughter.

2. 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 was getting good reviews.
(c) That her book would be published.
(d) That her mother was furious about the book she had written.

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

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

5. Where did Barbara Kingsolver's creature live?
(a) A birdcage.
(b) A shoebox.
(c) An aquarium.
(d) A terrarium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose after twenty years in Tucson?

3. How long ago did Barbara Kingsolver vacation in the Bahamas?

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

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose when she moved to Tucson?

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