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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news did Barbara Kingsolver get on the day she brought her first daughter home?
(a) That her book would be published.
(b) That her book was getting good reviews.
(c) That her mother was furious about the book she had written.
(d) That her mother had died.

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver say she survived her daughter's difficult periods?
(a) By giving her strict boundaries.
(b) By sending her to her room.
(c) By giving her books to read.
(d) By taking her to the zoo.

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

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say worked against her in high school?
(a) Her problems with language comprehension.
(b) Her wardrobe.
(c) Her looks.
(d) Her religion.

5. What would Barbara Kingsolver find on the sidewalk in front of her house before she moved to Tucson?
(a) Empty beer bottles.
(b) Pornographic images.
(c) Threats.
(d) Drug paraphernalia.

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

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

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

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

10. What is the 'Tide of Tucson'?
(a) The rhythm of visitors in Barbara Kingsolver's house.
(b) The rhythm of the creature's hunger and dormancy.
(c) The threat that global warming would bring the ocean to Arizona.
(d) The rhythm by which the creature moved about.

11. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian might have seen in her?
(a) Danger.
(b) Genius.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Potential.

12. How long does Barbara Kingsolver say it would take her mother a full week to do?
(a) Make five days' pay.
(b) Clean and launder.
(c) Balance the checkbook.
(d) Write a short story.

13. 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 get them through high school.
(d) To participate in their care.

14. Where did Barbara Kingsolver's creature live?
(a) An aquarium.
(b) A terrarium.
(c) A birdcage.
(d) A shoebox.

15. Parents have to strike a balance between boundaries and what, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?
(a) Bondage.
(b) Blinding themselves to behavior.
(c) Blowouts.
(d) Browbeating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she spent as little time as possible on?

2. What is the benefit of establishing boundaries, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

3. What notion does Barbara Kingsolver dismiss as absurd?

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver give her creature regularly?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver think her creature might want to change?

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