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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Barbara Kingsolver live when Camille was four?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Tucson.
(d) Spain.

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver beg her parents for one Christmas?
(a) A horse.
(b) A radio.
(c) To move.
(d) Go-go boots.

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

4. Where does Barbara Kingsolver live, in Tucson?
(a) A compound.
(b) A barracks.
(c) A cabin.
(d) A townhouse.

5. What did one boy compare Barbara Kingsolver to in high school?
(a) Bride of Frankenstein.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) The creature from the Black Lagoon.
(d) Madame Curie.

6. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she was looking for in Tucson?
(a) Experience.
(b) Forgetfulness.
(c) Peace.
(d) Safety.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was stronger in the place where she lived when Camille was four?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Community.
(d) Radicalism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did private property develop, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

2. What did the library recruit Barbara Kingsolver for?

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver get instead of what she'd asked for, at Christmas?

4. What would Barbara Kingsolver find on the sidewalk in front of her house before she moved to Tucson?

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

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