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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 was the priority in college?
(a) Education.
(b) Fashion.
(c) Popularity.
(d) Status.
2. How did Barbara Kingsolver respond to the demands of fashion as an adult?
(a) By having an impeccable wardrobe.
(b) By secluding herself.
(c) By moving west.
(d) By having a beautiful, popular husband.
3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she had to let her daughter do?
(a) Rebel against her instructions.
(b) Make her own mistakes.
(c) Make her own breakfast.
(d) Buy her own clothes.
4. What would the creature do after these periods of dormancy?
(a) Bustle about.
(b) Roll over.
(c) Shed its skin.
(d) Move a few inches.
5. What evidence does Stephen Jay Gould say George Morton ignored in his measurements?
(a) Relative skull and body sizes.
(b) Geological origin of specimens.
(c) Evolutionary pressures on early human populations.
(d) Cultural influences on bone formations.
6. Whose loyalty does Barbara Kingsolver describe when she describes human loyalty?
(a) Sports fans.
(b) Gang members.
(c) Husbands.
(d) Political subjects.
7. What does Barbara Kingsolver teach her daughter, instead of showing her how to make hospital corners?
(a) The history of feminism.
(b) Science projects.
(c) Baking projects.
(d) Farming.
8. What did Camille do on purpose, when Barbara Kingsolver warned her not to?
(a) Tracked mud into the kitchen.
(b) Knocked over orange juice.
(c) Spilled milk on herself.
(d) Cut her finger.
9. Where was Barbara Kingsolver's contraband creature discovered?
(a) In her suitcase.
(b) A box of shells.
(c) In her pocketbook.
(d) A box of shoes.
10. What does Barbara Kingsolver think her creature might want to change?
(a) His feathers.
(b) His atmosphere.
(c) His color.
(d) His 'uniform'.
11. What notion does Barbara Kingsolver dismiss as absurd?
(a) That the state should subsidize all families with children.
(b) That parents need licensing.
(c) That parents should raise their own children.
(d) That children should be raised communally.
12. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say she joined the group she joined?
(a) She wanted to test a theory.
(b) She wanted to lose weight.
(c) She wanted to feel strong.
(d) She wanted to learn.
13. What skill did Camille develop during Barbara Kingsolver's travels with her?
(a) She learned to recognize political propaganda.
(b) She became bi-lingual.
(c) She learned how to read.
(d) She learned to play violin.
14. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose after twenty years in Tucson?
(a) Her sense of her history.
(b) Her memory of her family.
(c) Her Kentucky accent.
(d) Her sense of exceptionalism.
15. Where did Barbara Kingsolver settle in her travels?
(a) Sardinia.
(b) Crete.
(c) Iceland.
(d) Tenerife.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was stronger in the place where she lived when Camille was four?
2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the curriculum in her school?
3. What was the creature's reaction to Arizona?
4. What does anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman say about the African savannah?
5. When was Barbara Kingsolver's daughter Camille a handful?
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