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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What development does Barbara Kingsolver describe as a survival tool people acquired 'in the beginning'?
(a) Geology.
(b) Religion.
(c) Science.
(d) Communication.

2. How do Barbara Kingsolver's meditations on private property relate to her thoughts about moving to Tucson?
(a) She wanted to allow as many creatures as possible to use her land.
(b) She was justifying the peace she gained by moving away from a commune.
(c) She was analyzing her desire to keep animals off her property.
(d) She was justifying having more than some of her neighbors.

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?
(a) Bruiser.
(b) Brother.
(c) Bubba.
(d) Buster.

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

5. What does anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman say about the African savannah?
(a) That it was the most important environment for human development.
(b) That it created a certain kind of human creature, but the development would have been different in other environments.
(c) That it was the place where human development was first tested.
(d) That it was the most hostile environment humans could have encountered at that stage of development.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Barbara Kingsolver wear to school?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose when she moved to Tucson?

3. What was the problem with the education system in Barbara Kingsolver's hometown?

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

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

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