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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 was Barbara Kingsolver's contraband creature discovered?
(a) In her suitcase.
(b) A box of shells.
(c) A box of shoes.
(d) In her pocketbook.

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

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

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver think the creature was reacting to?
(a) Humidity.
(b) Scents.
(c) Winds.
(d) Lunar cycles.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose when she moved to Tucson?
(a) Her sense of lived history with her living family.
(b) Her connections to her family.
(c) Her affection for her family.
(d) Her memory of her time with her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Barbara Kingsolver's meditations on private property relate to her thoughts about moving to Tucson?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver find on the Eagle Tail Trail?

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

4. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe herself when she was in high school?

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

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