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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Essays 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 book would be published.
(d) That her mother was furious about the book she had written.

2. What is the 'Tide of Tucson'?
(a) The rhythm by which the creature moved about.
(b) The rhythm of the creature's hunger and dormancy.
(c) The rhythm of visitors in Barbara Kingsolver's house.
(d) The threat that global warming would bring the ocean to Arizona.

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

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

5. What was the consequence of the librarian's relationship with Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Barbara Kingsolver saw beyond her hometown.
(b) Barbara Kingsolver learned to hate her hometown.
(c) Barbara Kingsolver could not stay in her hometown.
(d) Barbara Kingsolver learned to understand her parents' limitations and desires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What notion does Barbara Kingsolver dismiss as absurd?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver join in the beginning of Essay 9: 'The Muscle Mystique'?

3. What disturbances does Barbara Kingsolver experience in Tucson?

4. How long ago did Barbara Kingsolver vacation in the Bahamas?

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

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