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

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver give her creature regularly?
(a) Peanuts.
(b) Seashells.
(c) Donuts.
(d) Rocks.

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

4. What resulted from the need to hunt, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) The need to walk upright.
(b) The need to wage war.
(c) The need to communicate.
(d) The need to eliminate competitors for game.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?

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

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?

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

5. Where has Barbara Kingsolver come from, to Arizona?

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