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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 does Barbara Kingsolver characterize Camille's morning routine?
(a) Lackadaisical.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Efficient.
(d) Rebellious.

2. 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 evidence of social evolution influencing species evolution.
(c) That it was the first thing to distinguish humans from other creatures.
(d) That it was the basis for all human religions that followed.

3. Why were women relegated to household chores, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) They were better at it than men.
(b) Men could support them.
(c) Men would not let them into the workplace.
(d) Women were not educated.

4. What other developments does Barbara Kingsolver say resulted from hunting?
(a) Sacrifice.
(b) Literacy.
(c) Tool making.
(d) Social structures.

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 was the most hostile environment humans could have encountered at that stage of development.
(c) That it created a certain kind of human creature, but the development would have been different in other environments.
(d) That it was the place where human development was first tested.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say happens to a woman's standard of living after a divorce?

2. What was the consequence of the librarian's relationship with Barbara Kingsolver?

3. Parents have to strike a balance between boundaries and what, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?

4. When was Barbara Kingsolver's daughter Camille a handful?

5. What lesson does Barbara Kingsolver say she is teaching her daughter?

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