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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 teach her daughter, instead of showing her how to make hospital corners?
(a) The history of feminism.
(b) Farming.
(c) Science projects.
(d) Baking projects.

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

3. What made Barbara Kingsolver think that the creature was dead?
(a) He would not appear to breathe.
(b) He would not move for days on end.
(c) He would get very cold.
(d) He smelled like he was decaying.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Barbara Kingsolver's contraband creature discovered?

2. For what occasion does Barbara Kingsolver say she bought an expensive, chic outfit?

3. What development does Barbara Kingsolver describe as a survival tool people acquired 'in the beginning'?

4. Where does Barbara Kingsolver live, in Tucson?

5. What would Barbara Kingsolver find on the sidewalk in front of her house before she moved to Tucson?

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