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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Barbara Kingsolver get instead of what she'd asked for, at Christmas?
(a) A weekend away.
(b) Rain boots.
(c) A stuffed animal.
(d) A book.

2. 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) Cultural influences on bone formations.
(d) Geological origin of specimens.

3. What did H. H. Goddard devise?
(a) Tests for determining whether to admit immigrants.
(b) Statistical measurement techniques for bones.
(c) Intelligence tests for immigrants.
(d) Bone-dating tests for archaeologists.

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

5. Why were women relegated to household chores, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Men could support them.
(b) Men would not let them into the workplace.
(c) Women were not educated.
(d) They were better at it than men.

6. What did one boy compare Barbara Kingsolver to in high school?
(a) Bride of Frankenstein.
(b) Madame Curie.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) The creature from the Black Lagoon.

7. How did Barbara Kingsolver find a way to co-exist peacefully with her environment?
(a) By trapping and relocating the animals.
(b) By enclosing her garden.
(c) By getting used to animals in her garden.
(d) By shooting the animals.

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

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

10. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she spent as little time as possible on?
(a) Revising.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Housekeeping.
(d) Managing money.

11. What was Barbara Kingsolver fleeing from in the U.S.?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Persecution.
(d) Crime.

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

13. What period did Steinberg conclude was most trying or parents?
(a) The first year.
(b) Terrible twos.
(c) Adolescence.
(d) The first two years of college.

14. What does Barbara Kingsolver say is society's responsibility in regard to children?
(a) To feed and clothe them.
(b) To participate in their care.
(c) To get them through high school.
(d) To help them reach their dreams.

15. What was the creature's reaction to Arizona?
(a) He was terrified.
(b) He adjusted quickly.
(c) Confusion.
(d) He was unaware.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Barbara Kingsolver live when Camille was four?

2. How long does Barbara Kingsolver say it would take her mother a full week to do?

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

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

5. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say she joined the group she joined?

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