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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 evidence does Stephen Jay Gould say George Morton ignored in his measurements?
(a) Evolutionary pressures on early human populations.
(b) Cultural influences on bone formations.
(c) Geological origin of specimens.
(d) Relative skull and body sizes.

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver find on the Eagle Tail Trail?
(a) Human remains.
(b) Catamount footprints.
(c) Ancient artifacts.
(d) A creature.

3. How did private property develop, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) As a form of preserving status of families.
(b) As a way to regulate hunting.
(c) As a form of regulating marriage.
(d) As a form of communication.

4. What had Barbara Kingsolver smuggled back to Arizona from the Bahamas?
(a) A starfish.
(b) A hermit crab.
(c) A lizard.
(d) A cat.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose after twenty years in Tucson?
(a) Her sense of exceptionalism.
(b) Her Kentucky accent.
(c) Her memory of her family.
(d) Her sense of her history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman say about the African savannah?

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

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver give her creature regularly?

4. What was the creature's reaction to Arizona?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?

(see the answer key)

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