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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize monogamy?
(a) Rare in nature.
(b) Common in vertebrates.
(c) A common practice in primates.
(d) The rule of nature.

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

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

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

5. What evidence does Stephen Jay Gould say George Morton ignored in his measurements?
(a) Cultural influences on bone formations.
(b) Relative skull and body sizes.
(c) Evolutionary pressures on early human populations.
(d) Geological origin of specimens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What development does Barbara Kingsolver describe as a survival tool people acquired 'in the beginning'?

2. What would Camille ignore, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

3. Where does Barbara Kingsolver say U.S. culture is going?

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver buy in the unnamed town she found?

5. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe herself when she was in high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say the Terrible Twos and the teen years are dreaded by parents?

2. Where does intellectual testing come from, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?

3. How did Barbara Kingsolver's sense of fashion change as she grew up?

4. What is E. O. Wilson's theory on monogamy in human beings?

5. What was Camille's experience of Spain like?

6. What did Barbara Kingsolver find when she started to read?

7. Where does the idea of private property come from?

8. What is Barbara Kingsolver's philosophy for raising her own daughter?

9. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her wardrobe in high school?

10. How did America and Europe compare in terms of childrearing, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?

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