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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize Camille's morning routine?
(a) Efficient.
(b) Rebellious.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Lackadaisical.

2. Who made it through the trying times most successfully, according to Laurence Steinberg?
(a) Parents with extensive support networks.
(b) Parents with satisfying careers.
(c) Parents with bigger houses.
(d) Parents with higher incomes.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver teach her daughter, instead of showing her how to make hospital corners?
(a) Science projects.
(b) The history of feminism.
(c) Farming.
(d) Baking projects.

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

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

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

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

8. What was uncommon about the beach where Barbara Kingsolver collected stones and shells?
(a) Tall waves.
(b) Pink sand.
(c) Unique species of crabs.
(d) Black sand.

9. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the mating ritual of the octopus?
(a) Loving.
(b) Repetitive.
(c) Violent.
(d) Accidental.

10. Where did Barbara Kingsolver settle in her travels?
(a) Tenerife.
(b) Iceland.
(c) Sardinia.
(d) Crete.

11. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she spent as little time as possible on?
(a) Laundry.
(b) Revising.
(c) Housekeeping.
(d) Managing money.

12. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?
(a) That it was more important than is thought.
(b) That it was the first evidence of social evolution influencing species evolution.
(c) That it was the first thing to distinguish humans from other creatures.
(d) That it was the basis for all human religions that followed.

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

14. What did Barbara Kingsolver give her creature regularly?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Seashells.
(c) Peanuts.
(d) Donuts.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the difference between mothering now and when she was a child?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver allow her daughter to do, in their time together?

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver find on the Eagle Tail Trail?

5. Under what conditions will the pupfish be monogamous, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

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