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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 was the problem with the education system in Barbara Kingsolver's hometown?
(a) Meager funds.
(b) Rural biases against intellectuals.
(c) Race tension.
(d) Social turmoil.

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

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver think her creature might want to change?
(a) His 'uniform'.
(b) His color.
(c) His feathers.
(d) His atmosphere.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the 'Tide of Tucson'?

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

3. Where has Barbara Kingsolver come from, to Arizona?

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

5. What issues does Barbara Kingsolver say she learned about through the librarian?

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