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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. When did Barbara Kingsolver decide to move to Tucson?
(a) When the race tensions in her area made life dangerous for her.
(b) When the crime in her area got so bad that she couldn't feel safe.
(c) When the kids in her neighborhood made too much noise for her to write.
(d) When the prices for things got too high to afford a good lifestyle with her writing.

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver beg her parents for one Christmas?
(a) A radio.
(b) To move.
(c) A horse.
(d) Go-go boots.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?
(a) That it was more important than is thought.
(b) That it was the first evidence of social evolution influencing species evolution.
(c) That it was the basis for all human religions that followed.
(d) That it was the first thing to distinguish humans from other creatures.

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

5. What kind of poetry does Barbara Kingsolver survival requires?
(a) A poetry of endurance.
(b) A poetry of desire.
(c) A poetry of pleasure.
(d) A poetry of hunger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian might have seen in her?

2. What is the 'Tide of Tucson'?

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver find out about the creature's spells of dormancy?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian introduced her to?

5. What would Barbara Kingsolver find on the sidewalk in front of her house before she moved to Tucson?

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