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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Barbara Kingsolver say it would take her mother a full week to do?
(a) Write a short story.
(b) Clean and launder.
(c) Balance the checkbook.
(d) Make five days' pay.

2. What is the purpose of revisionist history, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) To describe history as a process of progress.
(b) To include other voices than white males' in historical narratives.
(c) To tell the stories of white males from new perspectives.
(d) To describe the randomness of key events in human history.

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the curriculum in her school?
(a) Illegitimate.
(b) Uninteresting.
(c) Insufficient.
(d) Inconsistent.

4. Who made it through the trying times most successfully, according to Laurence Steinberg?
(a) Parents with bigger houses.
(b) Parents with satisfying careers.
(c) Parents with higher incomes.
(d) Parents with extensive support networks.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say her school system would not have prepared her for?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Marriage.
(c) A career.
(d) Motherhood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the difference between mothering now and when she was a child?

3. When was Barbara Kingsolver recruited by the librarian?

4. Why does Barbara Kingsolver cringe when the evangelists urge women to take up housework?

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

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