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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of revisionist history, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) To tell the stories of white males from new perspectives.
(b) To describe the randomness of key events in human history.
(c) To include other voices than white males' in historical narratives.
(d) To describe history as a process of progress.

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver buy in the unnamed town she found?
(a) A leather purse.
(b) Pottery.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Jewelry.

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

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose after twenty years in Tucson?
(a) Her memory of her family.
(b) Her sense of exceptionalism.
(c) Her Kentucky accent.
(d) Her sense of her history.

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

6. When did Barbara Kingsolver decide to move to Tucson?
(a) When the kids in her neighborhood made too much noise for her to write.
(b) When the prices for things got too high to afford a good lifestyle with her writing.
(c) When the race tensions in her area made life dangerous for her.
(d) When the crime in her area got so bad that she couldn't feel safe.

7. What example does Barbara Kingsolver give us, to justify her characterization of her physique?
(a) She didn't break 100 pounds until the end of high school.
(b) She had to be carried up and down stairs.
(c) She had to shop in the men's section by high school.
(d) She could not break 8 minutes for running a mile.

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

9. When was Barbara Kingsolver's daughter Camille a handful?
(a) Her teenage years.
(b) Her first year.
(c) Her terrible twos.
(d) Her first years in school.

10. What does Barbara Kingsolver say Wilson ignores?
(a) Environmental influences on behavior.
(b) Natural forces.
(c) Genetic influences.
(d) Modern social forces.

11. How do Barbara Kingsolver's meditations on private property relate to her thoughts about moving to Tucson?
(a) She was justifying having more than some of her neighbors.
(b) She wanted to allow as many creatures as possible to use her land.
(c) She was analyzing her desire to keep animals off her property.
(d) She was justifying the peace she gained by moving away from a commune.

12. What other developments does Barbara Kingsolver say resulted from hunting?
(a) Social structures.
(b) Tool making.
(c) Literacy.
(d) Sacrifice.

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

14. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian introduced her to?
(a) Librarians.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Literature.
(d) Other students.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say she joined the group she joined?

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

3. What evidence does Stephen Jay Gould say George Morton ignored in his measurements?

4. What did living in this place make Barbara Kingsolver see about how Americans see children?

5. What was the creature's reaction to Arizona?

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