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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 skill did Camille develop during Barbara Kingsolver's travels with her?
(a) She learned how to read.
(b) She became bi-lingual.
(c) She learned to recognize political propaganda.
(d) She learned to play violin.

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

3. Why were women relegated to household chores, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Women were not educated.
(b) Men would not let them into the workplace.
(c) They were better at it than men.
(d) Men could support them.

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say people feel about children in the place where the family lived in Camille's fourth year?
(a) Affection.
(b) Disdain.
(c) Disregard.
(d) Indifference.

5. What did H. H. Goddard devise?
(a) Statistical measurement techniques for bones.
(b) Tests for determining whether to admit immigrants.
(c) Bone-dating tests for archaeologists.
(d) Intelligence tests for immigrants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What disturbances does Barbara Kingsolver experience in Tucson?

3. What did Camille do on purpose, when Barbara Kingsolver warned her not to?

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

5. Where did Barbara Kingsolver's creature live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Barbara Kingsolver's philosophy of housekeeping?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the reaction to her books in her hometown?

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

8. What lesson is Barbara Kingsolver trying to teach her daughter about housekeeping?

9. Describe Kingsolver's trip to La Gomera.

10. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about who should be a parent?

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