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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say people feel about children in the place where the family lived in Camille's fourth year?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Disregard.
(c) Affection.
(d) Disdain.

2. How long ago did Barbara Kingsolver vacation in the Bahamas?
(a) A year.
(b) A month.
(c) Two years.
(d) Six months.

3. What would Camille ignore, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Her mother's instructions about making breakfast.
(b) Her mother's threats.
(c) Her mother's requests not to make a mess.
(d) Her mother's requests to pick up the pace.

4. What argument of E.O. Wilson's does book reject?
(a) That people have free will.
(b) That genetics drives all of human existence.
(c) That people are products of their environments.
(d) That morality is an evolutionary construct.

5. What predisposes human males to infidelity, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) The desire to spread genes.
(b) The desire to possess females.
(c) The desire to further one's civilization.
(d) The desire to gain status.

6. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?
(a) Bubba.
(b) Bruiser.
(c) Buster.
(d) Brother.

7. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the curriculum in her school?
(a) Uninteresting.
(b) Illegitimate.
(c) Insufficient.
(d) Inconsistent.

8. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the priority in college?
(a) Education.
(b) Status.
(c) Popularity.
(d) Fashion.

9. What was Camille told every day when she was four?
(a) That she was a nuisance.
(b) That she was pretty.
(c) That she should keep quiet.
(d) That she had a great potential.

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

11. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the difference between mothering now and when she was a child?
(a) Mothers today are more likely to be teachers.
(b) Mothers today are less likely to be head of the household.
(c) Mothers today tend to work outside the home.
(d) Mothers today pay more attention to the children.

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

13. What would Barbara Kingsolver wear to school?
(a) Boy's clothing.
(b) Outlandish costumes.
(c) Hand-me-downs.
(d) Expensive designer clothing.

14. What did H. H. Goddard devise?
(a) Tests for determining whether to admit immigrants.
(b) Intelligence tests for immigrants.
(c) Statistical measurement techniques for bones.
(d) Bone-dating tests for archaeologists.

15. How did Barbara Kingsolver find a way to co-exist peacefully with her environment?
(a) By enclosing her garden.
(b) By shooting the animals.
(c) By trapping and relocating the animals.
(d) By getting used to animals in her garden.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she was looking for in Tucson?

3. What made Barbara Kingsolver think that the creature was dead?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose when she moved to Tucson?

5. Why are children difficult in the developmental stage Camille was in?

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