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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. When was Barbara Kingsolver recruited by the librarian?
(a) Her freshman year.
(b) Her junior year.
(c) Her sophomore year.
(d) Her senior year.

2. What example does Barbara Kingsolver give us, to justify her characterization of her physique?
(a) She didn't break 100 pounds until the end of high school.
(b) She had to be carried up and down stairs.
(c) She had to shop in the men's section by high school.
(d) She could not break 8 minutes for running a mile.

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

4. How long does Barbara Kingsolver say it would take her mother a full week to do?
(a) Balance the checkbook.
(b) Write a short story.
(c) Clean and launder.
(d) Make five days' pay.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she had to let her daughter do?
(a) Rebel against her instructions.
(b) Buy her own clothes.
(c) Make her own breakfast.
(d) Make her own mistakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did living in this place make Barbara Kingsolver see about how Americans see children?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver allow her daughter to do, in their time together?

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize Camille's morning routine?

4. What did H. H. Goddard devise?

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

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