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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 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 could not break 8 minutes for running a mile.
(d) She had to shop in the men's section by high school.

2. What did H. H. Goddard devise?
(a) Statistical measurement techniques for bones.
(b) Tests for determining whether to admit immigrants.
(c) Bone-dating tests for archaeologists.
(d) Intelligence tests for immigrants.

3. What was Barbara Kingsolver fleeing from in the U.S.?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Crime.
(d) Persecution.

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

5. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize monogamy?
(a) Common in vertebrates.
(b) A common practice in primates.
(c) Rare in nature.
(d) The rule of nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Barbara Kingsolver's daughter Camille a handful?

2. What did the library recruit Barbara Kingsolver for?

3. In essay 16: 'Postcards from an Imaginary Mom', how long was Barbara Kingsolver on book tour for?

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter make at the Museum?

5. What notion does Barbara Kingsolver dismiss as absurd?

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