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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 does Barbara Kingsolver think about after her discovery?
(a) Time and change.
(b) Modern necessities.
(c) Birth and aging.
(d) Life and death.

2. 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.

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver find on the Eagle Tail Trail?
(a) Human remains.
(b) Catamount footprints.
(c) A creature.
(d) Ancient artifacts.

4. What resulted from the need to hunt, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) The need to wage war.
(b) The need to eliminate competitors for game.
(c) The need to communicate.
(d) The need to walk upright.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Barbara Kingsolver cringe when the evangelists urge women to take up housework?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say her school system would not have prepared her for?

3. What lesson does Barbara Kingsolver say she is teaching her daughter?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she lacked in high school?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the 'high tide of Tucson' a metaphor for?

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

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

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

5. What does the title of this essay signify?

6. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the population of Tucson when she lives there?

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

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

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

10. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her daughter at age two?

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