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

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

3. What kind of poetry does Barbara Kingsolver survival requires?
(a) A poetry of hunger.
(b) A poetry of pleasure.
(c) A poetry of desire.
(d) A poetry of endurance.

4. How did Barbara Kingsolver find a way to co-exist peacefully with her environment?
(a) By getting used to animals in her garden.
(b) By trapping and relocating the animals.
(c) By enclosing her garden.
(d) By shooting the animals.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?
(a) That it was the first thing to distinguish humans from other creatures.
(b) That it was the first evidence of social evolution influencing species evolution.
(c) That it was the basis for all human religions that followed.
(d) That it was more important than is thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Barbara Kingsolver think that the creature was dead?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver think her creature might want to change?

3. What news did Barbara Kingsolver get on the day she brought her first daughter home?

4. What does anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman say about the African savannah?

5. What was the creature's reaction to Arizona?

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