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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 does Barbara Kingsolver say she lacked in high school?
(a) A belief system.
(b) Popularity.
(c) Friends.
(d) Relations with adults.

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

3. What had Barbara Kingsolver smuggled back to Arizona from the Bahamas?
(a) A lizard.
(b) A starfish.
(c) A cat.
(d) A hermit crab.

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

5. Where does Barbara Kingsolver live, in Tucson?
(a) A compound.
(b) A cabin.
(c) A barracks.
(d) A townhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?

2. What resulted from the need to hunt, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say her school system would not have prepared her for?

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

5. Where did Barbara Kingsolver's creature live?

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