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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Heard Museum a center for?
(a) Spanish-American history.
(b) Manifest Destiny.
(c) Pioneer culture.
(d) Native American culture.

2. Why are many school bonds voted down, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?
(a) Because people don't have a stake in education.
(b) Because people can't afford school districts.
(c) Because Americans would rather home-school their children.
(d) Because education is a luxury people don't want to pay for.

3. Which of these things did Barbara Kingsolver NOT remember when she took Camille to visit her childhood home?
(a) Putting on plays.
(b) Catching birds build nests.
(c) Catching crawfish.
(d) Collecting leaves to press.

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

5. What is the purpose of revisionist history, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) To include other voices than white males' in historical narratives.
(b) To describe history as a process of progress.
(c) To describe the randomness of key events in human history.
(d) To tell the stories of white males from new perspectives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the problem with the education system in Barbara Kingsolver's hometown?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose after twenty years in Tucson?

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver find on the Eagle Tail Trail?

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver buy in the unnamed town she found?

5. When would Barbara Kingsolver remember her childhood?

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