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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What news did Barbara Kingsolver get on the day she brought her first daughter home?
(a) That her mother had died.
(b) That her book was getting good reviews.
(c) That her mother was furious about the book she had written.
(d) That her book would be published.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose after twenty years in Tucson?
(a) Her memory of her family.
(b) Her sense of exceptionalism.
(c) Her Kentucky accent.
(d) Her sense of her history.

4. What does anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman say about the African savannah?
(a) That it was the most hostile environment humans could have encountered at that stage of development.
(b) That it was the most important environment for human development.
(c) That it was the place where human development was first tested.
(d) That it created a certain kind of human creature, but the development would have been different in other environments.

5. How do Barbara Kingsolver's meditations on private property relate to her thoughts about moving to Tucson?
(a) She wanted to allow as many creatures as possible to use her land.
(b) She was justifying the peace she gained by moving away from a commune.
(c) She was justifying having more than some of her neighbors.
(d) She was analyzing her desire to keep animals off her property.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver think her creature might want to change?

2. What disturbances does Barbara Kingsolver experience in Tucson?

3. When did Barbara Kingsolver decide to move to Tucson?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she was looking for in Tucson?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver name her creature?

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