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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 is the benefit of establishing boundaries, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Fixing behavior quickly.
(b) Allowing for individual interpretation.
(c) Giving a child strong incentives.
(d) Controlling a child's behavior.

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she had to let her daughter do?
(a) Make her own mistakes.
(b) Buy her own clothes.
(c) Rebel against her instructions.
(d) Make her own breakfast.

3. What did Camille do on purpose, when Barbara Kingsolver warned her not to?
(a) Tracked mud into the kitchen.
(b) Spilled milk on herself.
(c) Knocked over orange juice.
(d) Cut her finger.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose loyalty does Barbara Kingsolver describe when she describes human loyalty?

2. How long does Barbara Kingsolver say it would take her mother a full week to do?

3. Who made it through the trying times most successfully, according to Laurence Steinberg?

4. What does anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman say about the African savannah?

5. Where did Barbara Kingsolver live when Camille was four?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Barbara Kingsolver get when she asked for go-go-boots?

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

3. What inequality does Barbara Kingsolver explore in housekeeping?

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

5. What problem does Barbara Kingsolver say her school system was plagued by, in 'How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life'?

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

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

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

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

10. Why did Barbara Kingsolver move to Tucson?

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