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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. Why were Barbara Kingsolver's friends jealous of her book tour?
(a) She was going to be famous.
(b) She was traveling first class.
(c) She was going to be rich.
(d) She was getting to see the U.S.

2. What are Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about nuclear weapons?
(a) They should only be used to avert all-out war.
(b) They work as effective deterrents.
(c) They should be banned.
(d) They should only be possessed by two or three nations.

3. Who discovered Barbara Kingsolver's contraband?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her dog.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her sister.

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

5. 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 created a certain kind of human creature, but the development would have been different in other environments.
(d) That it was the place where human development was first tested.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize monogamy?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter make at the Museum?

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the effect of 'Silence of the Lambs'?

4. What kind of musical training had Barbara Kingsolver had?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say her school system would not have prepared her for?

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