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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver think about after her discovery?
(a) Modern necessities.
(b) Time and change.
(c) Birth and aging.
(d) Life and death.

2. 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.

3. Whose loyalty does Barbara Kingsolver describe when she describes human loyalty?
(a) Political subjects.
(b) Gang members.
(c) Husbands.
(d) Sports fans.

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver find out about the creature's spells of dormancy?
(a) They were a sign of illness.
(b) They were a sign of culture shock.
(c) They were a result of poisoning.
(d) They were normal.

5. What development does Barbara Kingsolver describe as a survival tool people acquired 'in the beginning'?
(a) Geology.
(b) Communication.
(c) Religion.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Barbara Kingsolver say it would take her mother a full week to do?

2. What is the purpose of revisionist history, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the curriculum in her school?

4. What predisposes human males to infidelity, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

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

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