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

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

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

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver find on the Eagle Tail Trail?
(a) Ancient artifacts.
(b) Human remains.
(c) A creature.
(d) Catamount footprints.

5. What was the creature's reaction to Arizona?
(a) Confusion.
(b) He was terrified.
(c) He was unaware.
(d) He adjusted quickly.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did private property develop, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver think the creature was reacting to?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?

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