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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. Where has Barbara Kingsolver come from, to Arizona?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) California.
(d) New York.

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she was looking for in Tucson?
(a) Forgetfulness.
(b) Safety.
(c) Experience.
(d) Peace.

3. What would the creature do after these periods of dormancy?
(a) Bustle about.
(b) Roll over.
(c) Move a few inches.
(d) Shed its skin.

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose after twenty years in Tucson?
(a) Her sense of exceptionalism.
(b) Her Kentucky accent.
(c) Her sense of her history.
(d) Her memory of her family.

5. 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 was the most important environment for human development.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Barbara Kingsolver live, in Tucson?

2. What disturbances does Barbara Kingsolver experience in Tucson?

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

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

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

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