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

2. 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 shooting the animals.
(c) By enclosing her garden.
(d) By trapping and relocating the animals.

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

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

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?
(a) That it was the first evidence of social evolution influencing species evolution.
(b) That it was the first thing to distinguish humans from other creatures.
(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 other developments does Barbara Kingsolver say resulted from hunting?

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

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

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

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

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