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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 made Barbara Kingsolver think that the creature was dead?
(a) He would not move for days on end.
(b) He would not appear to breathe.
(c) He smelled like he was decaying.
(d) He would get very cold.

2. What disturbances does Barbara Kingsolver experience in Tucson?
(a) Military jets overhead.
(b) Police sirens.
(c) Juvenile delinquents.
(d) Wooly pigs.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?
(a) That it was more important than is thought.
(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 the first evidence of social evolution influencing species evolution.

4. 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.

5. What was the consequence of the librarian's relationship with Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Barbara Kingsolver learned to hate her hometown.
(b) Barbara Kingsolver could not stay in her hometown.
(c) Barbara Kingsolver saw beyond her hometown.
(d) Barbara Kingsolver learned to understand her parents' limitations and desires.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long ago did Barbara Kingsolver vacation in the Bahamas?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver think about after her discovery?

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

5. What would Barbara Kingsolver find on the sidewalk in front of her house before she moved to Tucson?

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