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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 Laurence Steinberg study?
(a) The process of setting boundaries for children.
(b) The impact of children on parents' mental health.
(c) The non-verbal cues parents give children.
(d) The impact of various parenting techniques.

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the curriculum in her school?
(a) Inconsistent.
(b) Uninteresting.
(c) Illegitimate.
(d) Insufficient.

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

4. What is the difference between men's and women's salaries after a divorce, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?
(a) The women's goes up.
(b) The women's goes down faster than the men's go up.
(c) The men's goes up more quickly.
(d) The men's goes up.

5. What is the purpose of revisionist history, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) To describe history as a process of progress.
(b) To include other voices than white males' in historical narratives.
(c) To tell the stories of white males from new perspectives.
(d) To describe the randomness of key events in human history.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize monogamy?

3. What had Barbara Kingsolver smuggled back to Arizona from the Bahamas?

4. What news did Barbara Kingsolver get on the day she brought her first daughter home?

5. What issues does Barbara Kingsolver say she learned about through the librarian?

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