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Quiz about Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Quiz about Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

"Animal Dreams" by Barbara Kingsolver Quiz


Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorite authors, and "Animal Dreams" is one of her best! Contains spoilers!

A multiple-choice quiz by ldubose. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
ldubose
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
218,753
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
185
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Question 1 of 10
1. Codi Noline, medical school drop-out and former convenience store clerk, returns to her hometown of Grace, Arizona, ostensibly to teach what? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Codi's sister, Hallie, until recently answered the Extension Service's Garden Hotline. However, she packs up her truck and heads off to... what? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What is the name of J.T. and Emelina's youngest child? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Codi begins a relationship with Loyd Peregrina. What secret does Codi keep from Loyd? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What happened to Loyd's brother, Leander? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Codi and her Biology I and II students take a field trip to the river to study river ecology. Upon returning to the lab, what do they discover? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Viola and the Stitch and Bitch club decide to save Grace. How do they propose to do this? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Loyd takes Codi to his mother's home in Santa Rosalia Pueblo for Christmas. What do his relatives call Codi? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. After returning to Grace, what does Codi discover? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. It was during the first All Souls Day celebration at the cemetery that Codi learned about her father's family. What does she learn at the All Soul's Day celebration that ends the book? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Codi Noline, medical school drop-out and former convenience store clerk, returns to her hometown of Grace, Arizona, ostensibly to teach what?

Answer: High school biology

Codi really returns because her father, Doc Homer, has Alzheimer's and "his mind had begun to roam in alarming new pastures."
2. Codi's sister, Hallie, until recently answered the Extension Service's Garden Hotline. However, she packs up her truck and heads off to... what?

Answer: A war zone

Hallie heads to Nicaragua in the mid-80s to teach sustainable farming. Not the safest place, but Hallie is over-the-moon happy to to be "fighting" for a cause.
3. What is the name of J.T. and Emelina's youngest child?

Answer: Nicholas

Codi read somewhere that the brain organizes information in sets no longer than four; she wonders if that is why everyone calls Nicolas "the baby." John Tucker, named after Emelina's late brother (who was named after a car!), is the oldest of J.T. and Emelina's five boys. Mason is the next youngest child. Viola is actually John Tucker's, Mason's and Nicholas's grandmother!
4. Codi begins a relationship with Loyd Peregrina. What secret does Codi keep from Loyd?

Answer: Her pregnancy and miscarriage as a teenager

While all those things actually happened or are happening, the only secret Codi carries is the fact that the four dates she and Loyd went on in high school resulted in Codi's miscarried pregnancy.
5. What happened to Loyd's brother, Leander?

Answer: He died of puncture wounds and internal hemorrhaging.

Loyd and Leander were twins. Loyd explains to Codi that traditionally, twins were considered bad luck by the Pueblo people, and people in the pueblo called them "Twice as Bad." They were fifteen when Leander was killed in a bar fight.
6. Codi and her Biology I and II students take a field trip to the river to study river ecology. Upon returning to the lab, what do they discover?

Answer: Their river is dead.

Under the microscope, there is no microscopic life in the river. Upon testing, Codi finds the pH of the water is akin to battery acid. Turns out, the Black Mountain Mining Company is running sulphuric acid into the river in order to wring out the last pennies out of a dead mine. In order to avoid EPA fines, the mining company will divert the river and slowly kill Grace canyon.
7. Viola and the Stitch and Bitch club decide to save Grace. How do they propose to do this?

Answer: Sell pinatas of peacocks

The ladies make two trips to Tucson with their peacock pinatas. The pinatas grab the attention of collectors of folk art and the media, and slowly, Grace's plight becomes known. An art dealer told the ladies how to register their town and their orchards on the National Register of Historic Places. They hope this will keep the mining company from diverting the river.
8. Loyd takes Codi to his mother's home in Santa Rosalia Pueblo for Christmas. What do his relatives call Codi?

Answer: The Bread Girl

At the Christmas feast, Codi eats almost a half a loaf of bread. She thinks no one notices; she's wrong.
9. After returning to Grace, what does Codi discover?

Answer: Hallie has been kidnapped by the contras and taken to Honduras.

Doc Homer got the call on Christmas. Codi calls everyone she can, including the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Stitch and Bitch Club starts a letter writing campaign.
10. It was during the first All Souls Day celebration at the cemetery that Codi learned about her father's family. What does she learn at the All Soul's Day celebration that ends the book?

Answer: She was present when her mother died.

Viola took Codi to see the helicopter take her mother to the hospital. Her father always insisted that she was not there, despite her perfect memory of that day. Doc Homer always told Codi and Hallie they were from Illinois, Codi is pregnant at the end of the book, and unfortunately, Doc Homer has died.
Source: Author ldubose

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