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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Barbara Kingsolver's book tour entail?
(a) Sit-ins and hunger strikes.
(b) Long stays with patrons.
(c) A different city every day.
(d) Multi-day courses at colleges.

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

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say is society's responsibility in regard to children?
(a) To help them reach their dreams.
(b) To participate in their care.
(c) To get them through high school.
(d) To feed and clothe them.

4. Why were women relegated to household chores, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Men could support them.
(b) They were better at it than men.
(c) Men would not let them into the workplace.
(d) Women were not educated.

5. Which of these things did Barbara Kingsolver NOT remember when she took Camille to visit her childhood home?
(a) Catching crawfish.
(b) Putting on plays.
(c) Collecting leaves to press.
(d) Catching birds build nests.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the Titan Missiles decommissioned, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?

2. What did living in this place make Barbara Kingsolver see about how Americans see children?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver teach her daughter, instead of showing her how to make hospital corners?

4. What were Barbara Kingsolver's friends doing in Africa?

5. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the difference between mothering now and when she was a child?

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