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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver teach her daughter, instead of showing her how to make hospital corners?
(a) Baking projects.
(b) Farming.
(c) The history of feminism.
(d) Science projects.

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

3. How did Barbara Kingsolver find a way to co-exist peacefully with her environment?
(a) By getting used to animals in her garden.
(b) By enclosing her garden.
(c) By shooting the animals.
(d) By trapping and relocating the animals.

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

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say worked against her in high school?
(a) Her religion.
(b) Her looks.
(c) Her problems with language comprehension.
(d) Her wardrobe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the consequence of the librarian's relationship with Barbara Kingsolver?

2. Under what conditions will the pupfish be monogamous, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

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

4. What predisposes human males to infidelity, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

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

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