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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver lose when she moved to Tucson?
(a) Her affection for her family.
(b) Her connections to her family.
(c) Her memory of her time with her family.
(d) Her sense of lived history with her living family.

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

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe herself when she was in high school?
(a) An egghead.
(b) A socialite.
(c) A goody-goody.
(d) A nerd.

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

5. When was Barbara Kingsolver recruited by the librarian?
(a) Her junior year.
(b) Her sophomore year.
(c) Her freshman year.
(d) Her senior year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Barbara Kingsolver think that the creature was dead?

2. What would the creature do after these periods of dormancy?

3. How did private property develop, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

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

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

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