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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did one boy compare Barbara Kingsolver to in high school?
(a) Bride of Frankenstein.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Madame Curie.
(d) The creature from the Black Lagoon.

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

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver get instead of what she'd asked for, at Christmas?
(a) A book.
(b) A weekend away.
(c) Rain boots.
(d) A stuffed animal.

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver think her creature might want to change?
(a) His 'uniform'.
(b) His atmosphere.
(c) His feathers.
(d) His color.

5. What issues does Barbara Kingsolver say she learned about through the librarian?
(a) Abortion.
(b) Racism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Militarism.

6. 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.

7. What resulted from the need to hunt, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) The need to communicate.
(b) The need to eliminate competitors for game.
(c) The need to wage war.
(d) The need to walk upright.

8. What example does Barbara Kingsolver give us, to justify her characterization of her physique?
(a) She had to be carried up and down stairs.
(b) She could not break 8 minutes for running a mile.
(c) She didn't break 100 pounds until the end of high school.
(d) She had to shop in the men's section by high school.

9. How long does Barbara Kingsolver say it would take her mother a full week to do?
(a) Write a short story.
(b) Balance the checkbook.
(c) Clean and launder.
(d) Make five days' pay.

10. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe the photos that represent her past, now that she's moved to Tucson?
(a) Incomplete photos.
(b) Doctored photos.
(c) Perfect photos.
(d) Artificial photos.

11. What evidence does Stephen Jay Gould say George Morton ignored in his measurements?
(a) Geological origin of specimens.
(b) Cultural influences on bone formations.
(c) Evolutionary pressures on early human populations.
(d) Relative skull and body sizes.

12. What omen accompanied Barbara Kingsolver's arrival in La Gomera?
(a) Migratory birds.
(b) A lunar eclipse.
(c) Fine weather.
(d) Dolphins.

13. What does Barbara Kingsolver say her school system would not have prepared her for?
(a) Literacy.
(b) A career.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Motherhood.

14. What did the library recruit Barbara Kingsolver for?
(a) Organizing the library.
(b) Buying new books for the library.
(c) Evaluating the books in the library.
(d) Raising money for the library.

15. Where did Barbara Kingsolver travel to in 1991?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Barbara Kingsolver's contraband creature discovered?

2. What was the consequence of the librarian's relationship with Barbara Kingsolver?

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver compare the U.S. to other countries in terms of education?

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

5. How did Barbara Kingsolver find a way to co-exist peacefully with her environment?

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