High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never Test | Final Test - Easy

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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver accuse the American military of doing to Iraq in 1991?
(a) Crippling its nuclear programs.
(b) Selling its debt.
(c) Massacring its people.
(d) Destroying the water system.

2. What did fans write to give Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Gifts.
(b) Pictures of their children.
(c) Recipes.
(d) Suggestions for books.

3. How was Barbara Kingsolver greeted in Africa?
(a) 'Go home, American'.
(b) 'Hey lady, buy this from me'.
(c) 'Hello pretty lady'.
(d) 'Hello, white person'.

4. Where is the Heard Museum?
(a) Tucson.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Tenerife.
(d) Phoenix.

5. What is in stone soup?
(a) Chicken stock and potatoes.
(b) Rice and lamb.
(c) Potatoes, carrots and kale.
(d) Whatever people can throw in.

6. When were the Titan Missiles outside of Tucson taken out of service?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1984.

7. What did Barbara Kingsolver expect would take her away from the band?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Book tour.
(c) Illness.
(d) Journalism assignments.

8. What was unique about Haleakala?
(a) The beach had pink sand.
(b) The restaurant served fish that only lived in the lake in that volcano.
(c) The volcano created its own climate.
(d) The road was extremely windy.

9. What sound woke Barbara Kingsolver on her first morning in Cotonou?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Jet airplanes.
(c) Mosques calling worshippers to prayer.
(d) Explosions.

10. What job did Barbara Kingsolver take at 25?
(a) Pianist.
(b) Animal behaviorist.
(c) Activist.
(d) Writer.

11. What made Barbara Kingsolver feel that she was being patriotic?
(a) Protesting peace protests.
(b) Buying American-made goods.
(c) Protesting the Gulf War.
(d) Petitioning to boycott Iraqi goods.

12. What did Barbara Kingsolver grow up expecting?
(a) A romantic poet.
(b) A knight on a white horse.
(c) A certain amount of abuse.
(d) Prince Charming.

13. What does Barbara Kingsolver begin to use more of as she wrote her later books?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Violence.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Flawed protagonists.

14. What did Barbara Kingsolver build behind her house?
(a) A garden.
(b) A pond.
(c) A dog run.
(d) An outhouse.

15. What were Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about being a 'rock star'?
(a) She was not enthusiastic.
(b) She was disappointed when she realized what along shot it was.
(c) She was secretly hungry for fame.
(d) She was openly hungry for fame.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter play at the Museum?

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the effect of 'Silence of the Lambs'?

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter make at the Museum?

4. What were Barbara Kingsolver's friends doing in Africa?

5. Whose work was Barbara Kingsolver reading during this work?

(see the answer keys)

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