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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. What is the benefit of establishing boundaries, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Fixing behavior quickly.
(b) Giving a child strong incentives.
(c) Controlling a child's behavior.
(d) Allowing for individual interpretation.

2. What argument of E.O. Wilson's does book reject?
(a) That genetics drives all of human existence.
(b) That people are products of their environments.
(c) That morality is an evolutionary construct.
(d) That people have free will.

3. What is the 'Tide of Tucson'?
(a) The rhythm by which the creature moved about.
(b) The rhythm of the creature's hunger and dormancy.
(c) The threat that global warming would bring the ocean to Arizona.
(d) The rhythm of visitors in Barbara Kingsolver's house.

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian might have seen in her?
(a) Vulnerability.
(b) Danger.
(c) Potential.
(d) Genius.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver teach her daughter, instead of showing her how to make hospital corners?
(a) Science projects.
(b) The history of feminism.
(c) Farming.
(d) Baking projects.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she lacked in high school?

3. What evidence does Stephen Jay Gould say George Morton ignored in his measurements?

4. How did private property develop, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

5. What did H. H. Goddard devise?

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