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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 did Barbara Kingsolver get instead of what she'd asked for, at Christmas?
(a) Rain boots.
(b) A book.
(c) A stuffed animal.
(d) A weekend away.

2. 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 created a certain kind of human creature, but the development would have been different in other environments.
(c) That it was the most important environment for human development.
(d) That it was the most hostile environment humans could have encountered at that stage of development.

3. When was Barbara Kingsolver recruited by the librarian?
(a) Her freshman year.
(b) Her junior year.
(c) Her sophomore year.
(d) Her senior year.

4. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe herself when she was in high school?
(a) A socialite.
(b) A goody-goody.
(c) An egghead.
(d) A nerd.

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?
(a) Bruiser.
(b) Brother.
(c) Buster.
(d) Bubba.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe the photos that represent her past, now that she's moved to Tucson?

3. What did H. H. Goddard devise?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she lacked in high school?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver think about after her discovery?

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