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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 did private property develop, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) As a form of communication.
(b) As a form of regulating marriage.
(c) As a way to regulate hunting.
(d) As a form of preserving status of families.

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?
(a) Buster.
(b) Bubba.
(c) Bruiser.
(d) Brother.

3. What is the purpose of revisionist history, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) To tell the stories of white males from new perspectives.
(b) To describe the randomness of key events in human history.
(c) To include other voices than white males' in historical narratives.
(d) To describe history as a process of progress.

4. What was Camille told every day when she was four?
(a) That she should keep quiet.
(b) That she was a nuisance.
(c) That she was pretty.
(d) That she had a great potential.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian introduced her to?
(a) Librarians.
(b) Other students.
(c) Literature.
(d) Feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say people feel about children in the place where the family lived in Camille's fourth year?

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

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver beg her parents for one Christmas?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How would the Native Indians in Tucson bring rain after the dry season, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

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

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

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about photographs and memories?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her own parents' generation's parenting style?

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

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