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

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

3. Where does Barbara Kingsolver say she is questioned most?
(a) Her fiction.
(b) Her non-fiction.
(c) Her poetry.
(d) Her essays.

4. How was the poaching of silverwood stopped?
(a) Nature preserves were established.
(b) By harsh fines for poachers.
(c) The silverwood trade was regulated.
(d) Silverwood went extinct.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say could be purchased at Turner's General Store?
(a) Worms.
(b) Beer.
(c) Hunting licenses.
(d) Lumber.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver accuse the American military of doing to Iraq in 1991?

2. How did Barbara Kingsolver think people would see her after she and her husband divorced?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the justification for suppressing this information?

4. Which of these things did Barbara Kingsolver NOT remember when she took Camille to visit her childhood home?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about the difference between her fiction and her non-fiction?

2. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver find when she hiked into the bottom of the volcano at Haleakala?

4. Why was Barbara Kingsolver reticent about visiting the Titan Missile Museum?

5. Why was Kingsolver reluctant to join the Rock Bottom Remainders?

6. Why did Barbara Kingsolver leave the U.S. for Spain, and what did her time away teach her?

7. What does Kingsolver mean by invoking the notion of stone soup?

8. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

9. What note does "High Tide in Tucson" end on?

10. Why did Barbara Kingsolver take Camille to see at the Heard Museum?

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