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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize Camille's morning routine?
(a) Apathetic.
(b) Lackadaisical.
(c) Rebellious.
(d) Efficient.

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

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe the photos that represent her past, now that she's moved to Tucson?
(a) Incomplete photos.
(b) Perfect photos.
(c) Doctored photos.
(d) Artificial photos.

4. How long does Barbara Kingsolver say it would take her mother a full week to do?
(a) Clean and launder.
(b) Make five days' pay.
(c) Balance the checkbook.
(d) Write a short story.

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

6. Why does Barbara Kingsolver cringe when the evangelists urge women to take up housework?
(a) She knows that men will not always support them.
(b) She knows that the only path to self-fulfillment is through education.
(c) She knows that religion is usually an obstacle to a woman's self-fulfillment.
(d) She knows that they will be trapped in it forever.

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

8. For what occasion does Barbara Kingsolver say she bought an expensive, chic outfit?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A writer's meeting.
(c) A funeral.
(d) An award ceremony.

9. What had Barbara Kingsolver smuggled back to Arizona from the Bahamas?
(a) A hermit crab.
(b) A cat.
(c) A lizard.
(d) A starfish.

10. What is the purpose of revisionist history, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) To describe history as a process of progress.
(b) To describe the randomness of key events in human history.
(c) To tell the stories of white males from new perspectives.
(d) To include other voices than white males' in historical narratives.

11. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she was looking for in Tucson?
(a) Experience.
(b) Peace.
(c) Safety.
(d) Forgetfulness.

12. What does Barbara Kingsolver think about after her discovery?
(a) Modern necessities.
(b) Birth and aging.
(c) Life and death.
(d) Time and change.

13. Where did Barbara Kingsolver's creature live?
(a) An aquarium.
(b) A shoebox.
(c) A birdcage.
(d) A terrarium.

14. What would Camille ignore, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Her mother's threats.
(b) Her mother's instructions about making breakfast.
(c) Her mother's requests to pick up the pace.
(d) Her mother's requests not to make a mess.

15. What did the library recruit Barbara Kingsolver for?
(a) Buying new books for the library.
(b) Raising money for the library.
(c) Organizing the library.
(d) Evaluating the books in the library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say is society's responsibility in regard to children?

2. Why were women relegated to household chores, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

3. What other developments does Barbara Kingsolver say resulted from hunting?

4. What skill did Camille develop during Barbara Kingsolver's travels with her?

5. What was the creature's reaction to Arizona?

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