View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What news did Barbara Kingsolver get on the day she brought her first daughter home?
(a) That her book would be published.
(b) That her book was getting good reviews.
(c) That her mother was furious about the book she had written.
(d) That her mother had died.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?
(a) That it was the first evidence of social evolution influencing species evolution.
(b) That it was the basis for all human religions that followed.
(c) That it was the first thing to distinguish humans from other creatures.
(d) That it was more important than is thought.

4. What does anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman say about the African savannah?
(a) That it created a certain kind of human creature, but the development would have been different in other environments.
(b) That it was the place where human development was first tested.
(c) That it was the most hostile environment humans could have encountered at that stage of development.
(d) That it was the most important environment for human development.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why was Barbara Kingsolver sad when she collected mussels from Horse Lick Creek?

4. Under what conditions will the pupfish be monogamous, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver expect would take her away from the band?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 344 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample