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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 does Barbara Kingsolver lose when she moved to Tucson?
(a) Her connections to her family.
(b) Her sense of lived history with her living family.
(c) Her affection for her family.
(d) Her memory of her time with her family.

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe the photos that represent her past, now that she's moved to Tucson?
(a) Incomplete photos.
(b) Perfect photos.
(c) Doctored photos.
(d) Artificial photos.

3. What argument of E.O. Wilson's does book reject?
(a) That people have free will.
(b) That people are products of their environments.
(c) That morality is an evolutionary construct.
(d) That genetics drives all of human existence.

4. Why were women relegated to household chores, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Men could support them.
(b) Women were not educated.
(c) Men would not let them into the workplace.
(d) They were better at it than men.

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver beg her parents for one Christmas?
(a) To move.
(b) Go-go boots.
(c) A radio.
(d) A horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What notion does Barbara Kingsolver dismiss as absurd?

2. What were Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about being a 'rock star'?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was stronger in the place where she lived when Camille was four?

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

5. What disturbances does Barbara Kingsolver experience in Tucson?

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