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

2. In essay 16: 'Postcards from an Imaginary Mom', how long was Barbara Kingsolver on book tour for?
(a) A year.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Three months.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she had to let her daughter do?
(a) Make her own breakfast.
(b) Buy her own clothes.
(c) Rebel against her instructions.
(d) Make her own mistakes.

4. Where is the Heard Museum?
(a) Tucson.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Tenerife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the hotel in Cotonou?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say people feel about children in the place where the family lived in Camille's fourth year?

3. Why does Barbara Kingsolver cringe when the evangelists urge women to take up housework?

4. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize monogamy?

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

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