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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What omen accompanied Barbara Kingsolver's arrival in La Gomera?
(a) Migratory birds.
(b) Dolphins.
(c) Fine weather.
(d) A lunar eclipse.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?
(a) That it was the basis for all human religions that followed.
(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 first thing to distinguish humans from other creatures.

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian introduced her to?
(a) Librarians.
(b) Other students.
(c) Literature.
(d) Feminism.

5. How did private property develop, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) As a form of communication.
(b) As a form of preserving status of families.
(c) As a way to regulate hunting.
(d) As a form of regulating marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Camille ignore, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver give her creature regularly?

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

4. Where did Barbara Kingsolver travel to in 1991?

5. What did H. H. Goddard devise?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Barbara Kingsolver get when she asked for go-go-boots?

2. What is the 'high tide of Tucson' a metaphor for?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about who should be a parent?

4. What balance does Barbara Kingsolver have to strike in parenting Camille through her terrible twos?

5. What was Camille's experience of Spain like?

6. What was Buster's 'personality' like?

7. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her own parents' generation's parenting style?

8. What inequality does Barbara Kingsolver explore in housekeeping?

9. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about photographs and memories?

10. What did Barbara Kingsolver find when she started to read?

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