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

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian might have seen in her?
(a) Danger.
(b) Potential.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Genius.

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the difference between mothering now and when she was a child?
(a) Mothers today are less likely to be head of the household.
(b) Mothers today tend to work outside the home.
(c) Mothers today are more likely to be teachers.
(d) Mothers today pay more attention to the children.

4. What geo-political events motivated Barbara Kingsolver to travel?
(a) Drought in Tucson.
(b) Hurricane Hugo.
(c) The Gulf War.
(d) The fall of the Berlin Wall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she had to let her daughter do?

2. Whose loyalty does Barbara Kingsolver describe when she describes human loyalty?

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver say she survived her daughter's difficult periods?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver allow her daughter to do, in their time together?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say people feel about children in the place where the family lived in Camille's fourth year?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Barbara Kingsolver's sense of fashion change as she grew up?

2. Why does Barbara Kingsolver take up this meditation on monogamy in nature?

3. Where does the idea of private property come from?

4. Why Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter travel to Tenerife?

5. What was Barbara Kingsolver's solution to the question of private property in her new home in Tucson?

6. What is Barbara Kingsolver's philosophy for raising her own daughter?

7. How did the librarian save Barbara Kingsolver from her school's limitations?

8. How did Barbara Kingsolver get Buster?

9. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her wardrobe in high school?

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

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