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

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver think about after her discovery?
(a) Modern necessities.
(b) Birth and aging.
(c) Time and change.
(d) Life and death.

3. Parents have to strike a balance between boundaries and what, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?
(a) Bondage.
(b) Browbeating.
(c) Blowouts.
(d) Blinding themselves to behavior.

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she lacked in high school?
(a) Popularity.
(b) A belief system.
(c) Friends.
(d) Relations with adults.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver think her creature might want to change?
(a) His color.
(b) His 'uniform'.
(c) His feathers.
(d) His atmosphere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Barbara Kingsolver get instead of what she'd asked for, at Christmas?

2. What lesson does Barbara Kingsolver say she is teaching her daughter?

3. Where does Barbara Kingsolver live, in Tucson?

4. Where did Barbara Kingsolver's creature live?

5. Why couldn't Barbara Kingsolver refuse to go on book tour?

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