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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example does Barbara Kingsolver give us, to justify her characterization of her physique?
(a) She didn't break 100 pounds until the end of high school.
(b) She had to be carried up and down stairs.
(c) She had to shop in the men's section by high school.
(d) She could not break 8 minutes for running a mile.

2. 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 place where human development was first tested.
(c) That it created a certain kind of human creature, but the development would have been different in other environments.
(d) That it was the most important environment for human development.

3. What evidence does Stephen Jay Gould say George Morton ignored in his measurements?
(a) Evolutionary pressures on early human populations.
(b) Relative skull and body sizes.
(c) Geological origin of specimens.
(d) Cultural influences on bone formations.

4. How long ago did Barbara Kingsolver vacation in the Bahamas?
(a) A month.
(b) A year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Laurence Steinberg study?

2. What period did Steinberg conclude was most trying or parents?

3. What is the difference between men's and women's salaries after a divorce, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?

4. When was Barbara Kingsolver recruited by the librarian?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?

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