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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What disturbances does Barbara Kingsolver experience in Tucson?
(a) Wooly pigs.
(b) Juvenile delinquents.
(c) Military jets overhead.
(d) Police sirens.

3. What lesson does Barbara Kingsolver say she is teaching her daughter?
(a) That a woman can benefit by divorce.
(b) That a marriage can remain intact through changes.
(c) That a woman has freedom to choose her sexual partners.
(d) That a woman can be head of a household.

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

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

6. Why does Barbara Kingsolver cringe when the evangelists urge women to take up housework?
(a) She knows that the only path to self-fulfillment is through education.
(b) She knows that men will not always support them.
(c) She knows that they will be trapped in it forever.
(d) She knows that religion is usually an obstacle to a woman's self-fulfillment.

7. When was Barbara Kingsolver's daughter Camille a handful?
(a) Her first year.
(b) Her terrible twos.
(c) Her first years in school.
(d) Her teenage years.

8. 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) Make five days' pay.
(d) Clean and launder.

9. How does Barbara Kingsolver compare the U.S. to other countries in terms of education?
(a) Other countries' students are more advanced than American students.
(b) Other countries spend more on education than the U.S. does.
(c) Other countries' students are not as developed as American students.
(d) American students score higher than other countries' students in all categories.

10. What did living in this place make Barbara Kingsolver see about how Americans see children?
(a) They see children as luxuries.
(b) They see children as little bothers.
(c) They see children as little souls.
(d) They see children in terms of economics.

11. What does Barbara Kingsolver think about after her discovery?
(a) Life and death.
(b) Time and change.
(c) Modern necessities.
(d) Birth and aging.

12. What notion does Barbara Kingsolver dismiss as absurd?
(a) That parents need licensing.
(b) That children should be raised communally.
(c) That the state should subsidize all families with children.
(d) That parents should raise their own children.

13. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her physique?
(a) Lanky.
(b) Weak.
(c) Athletic.
(d) Overweight.

14. What does Barbara Kingsolver say is society's responsibility in regard to children?
(a) To get them through high school.
(b) To help them reach their dreams.
(c) To participate in their care.
(d) To feed and clothe them.

15. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose when she moved to Tucson?
(a) Her memory of her time with her family.
(b) Her sense of lived history with her living family.
(c) Her affection for her family.
(d) Her connections to her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Parents have to strike a balance between boundaries and what, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?

2. When was Barbara Kingsolver recruited by the librarian?

3. How do Barbara Kingsolver's meditations on private property relate to her thoughts about moving to Tucson?

4. What did Camille do on purpose, when Barbara Kingsolver warned her not to?

5. What did Laurence Steinberg study?

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