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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe herself when she was in high school?
(a) A goody-goody.
(b) A socialite.
(c) A nerd.
(d) An egghead.

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

4. Why were women relegated to household chores, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Men would not let them into the workplace.
(b) They were better at it than men.
(c) Women were not educated.
(d) Men could support them.

5. When was Barbara Kingsolver recruited by the librarian?
(a) Her senior year.
(b) Her sophomore year.
(c) Her junior year.
(d) Her freshman year.

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

7. What does anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman say about the African savannah?
(a) That it was the most hostile environment humans could have encountered at that stage of development.
(b) That it was the most important environment for human development.
(c) That it was the place where human development was first tested.
(d) That it created a certain kind of human creature, but the development would have been different in other environments.

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

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

10. Why are many school bonds voted down, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?
(a) Because education is a luxury people don't want to pay for.
(b) Because people don't have a stake in education.
(c) Because Americans would rather home-school their children.
(d) Because people can't afford school districts.

11. What does Barbara Kingsolver join in the beginning of Essay 9: 'The Muscle Mystique'?
(a) A study group for a science class.
(b) A scientific study of weight and energy.
(c) A dieting group.
(d) A health club.

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

13. What made Barbara Kingsolver think that the creature was dead?
(a) He would not move for days on end.
(b) He smelled like he was decaying.
(c) He would get very cold.
(d) He would not appear to breathe.

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

15. What was the creature's reaction to Arizona?
(a) He adjusted quickly.
(b) Confusion.
(c) He was terrified.
(d) He was unaware.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was stronger in the place where she lived when Camille was four?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?

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

4. What was Camille told every day when she was four?

5. What period did Steinberg conclude was most trying or parents?

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