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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. What did Barbara Kingsolver think the creature was reacting to?
(a) Humidity.
(b) Lunar cycles.
(c) Scents.
(d) Winds.

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

3. Who discovered Barbara Kingsolver's contraband?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her dog.

4. What is the difference between men's and women's salaries after a divorce, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?
(a) The women's goes down faster than the men's go up.
(b) The women's goes up.
(c) The men's goes up.
(d) The men's goes up more quickly.

5. What issues does Barbara Kingsolver say she learned about through the librarian?
(a) Racism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Militarism.
(d) Abortion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the curriculum in her school?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?

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

4. What skill did Camille develop during Barbara Kingsolver's travels with her?

5. What notion does Barbara Kingsolver dismiss as absurd?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Kingsolver's trip to La Gomera.

3. How did the librarian save Barbara Kingsolver from her school's limitations?

4. Why does Barbara Kingsolver take up this meditation on monogamy in nature?

5. Why Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter travel to Tenerife?

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

7. What was Barbara Kingsolver's solution to the question of private property in her new home in Tucson?

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

9. Why does Barbara Kingsolver discuss the origins of human agriculture?

10. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe her experience at the health club?

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