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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. What does Barbara Kingsolver allow her daughter to do, in their time together?
(a) Take the lead.
(b) Provide for her.
(c) Reverse their roles.
(d) Plan their outings.

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the hotel in Cotonou?
(a) Immaculate.
(b) Pristine.
(c) Ramshackle.
(d) Dilapidated.

3. When were the Titan Missiles outside of Tucson taken out of service?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1989.

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say happens to a woman's standard of living after a divorce?
(a) She becomes richer in non-material things.
(b) Declines.
(c) She has less time for herself and her kids.
(d) Increases.

5. What information does Barbara Kingsolver say the Pentagon suppressed?
(a) Number of oil wells captured by Americans.
(b) Number of soldiers in Iraq.
(c) Numbers of Iraqi war dead.
(d) Number of Americans killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Barbara Kingsolver find on the sidewalk in front of her house before she moved to Tucson?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver teach her daughter, instead of showing her how to make hospital corners?

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

4. What is the purpose of revisionist history, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

5. What news did Barbara Kingsolver get on the day she brought her first daughter home?

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