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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 23, 24 and 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Barbara Kingsolver decide to move to Tucson?
(a) When the prices for things got too high to afford a good lifestyle with her writing.
(b) When the race tensions in her area made life dangerous for her.
(c) When the crime in her area got so bad that she couldn't feel safe.
(d) When the kids in her neighborhood made too much noise for her to write.

2. Who was in this band with Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Another author.
(b) Her father.
(c) A boyfriend.
(d) Her neighbor.

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

4. Whose work was Barbara Kingsolver reading during this work?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Faulkner.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) Thoreau.

5. What is Haleakala?
(a) A volcano.
(b) A beach.
(c) A road.
(d) A restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion does Barbara Kingsolver reach about activism?

2. What did the library recruit Barbara Kingsolver for?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver think about after her discovery?

4. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the curriculum in her school?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the worst thing about book tour?

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