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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Barbara Kingsolver buy in the unnamed town she found?
(a) Clothing.
(b) A leather purse.
(c) Pottery.
(d) Jewelry.

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the mating ritual of the octopus?
(a) Loving.
(b) Accidental.
(c) Repetitive.
(d) Violent.

3. What disturbances does Barbara Kingsolver experience in Tucson?
(a) Juvenile delinquents.
(b) Wooly pigs.
(c) Military jets overhead.
(d) Police sirens.

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

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver get instead of what she'd asked for, at Christmas?
(a) A book.
(b) A weekend away.
(c) Rain boots.
(d) A stuffed animal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were women relegated to household chores, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

2. Who made it through the trying times most successfully, according to Laurence Steinberg?

3. What argument of E.O. Wilson's does book reject?

4. What made Barbara Kingsolver think that the creature was dead?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say is society's responsibility in regard to children?

(see the answer key)

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