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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. Under what conditions will the pupfish be monogamous, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) After they have chosen a life mate.
(b) After they have mated.
(c) When females are scarce.
(d) When food is scarce.

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

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe herself when she was in high school?
(a) An egghead.
(b) A socialite.
(c) A goody-goody.
(d) A nerd.

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

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. How did Barbara Kingsolver respond to the demands of fashion as an adult?

2. Who discovered Barbara Kingsolver's contraband?

3. What did the library recruit Barbara Kingsolver for?

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

5. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the mating ritual of the octopus?

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