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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Barbara Kingsolver find on the sidewalk in front of her house before she moved to Tucson?
(a) Pornographic images.
(b) Drug paraphernalia.
(c) Empty beer bottles.
(d) Threats.

2. Whose loyalty does Barbara Kingsolver describe when she describes human loyalty?
(a) Gang members.
(b) Sports fans.
(c) Husbands.
(d) Political subjects.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say people feel about children in the place where the family lived in Camille's fourth year?
(a) Disregard.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Affection.
(d) Disdain.

4. What lesson does Barbara Kingsolver say she is teaching her daughter?
(a) That a marriage can remain intact through changes.
(b) That a woman has freedom to choose her sexual partners.
(c) That a woman can be head of a household.
(d) That a woman can benefit by divorce.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Barbara Kingsolver live when Camille was four?

2. What kind of poetry does Barbara Kingsolver survival requires?

3. Who discovered Barbara Kingsolver's contraband?

4. What other developments does Barbara Kingsolver say resulted from hunting?

5. What period did Steinberg conclude was most trying or parents?

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