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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she was looking for in Tucson?

3. Who discovered Barbara Kingsolver's contraband?

4. What other developments does Barbara Kingsolver say resulted from hunting?

5. How did private property develop, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her daughter at age two?

5. Why does Barbara Kingsolver discuss the origins of human agriculture?

6. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the reaction to her books in her hometown?

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

8. What is Barbara Kingsolver's philosophy of housekeeping?

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

10. Why did Barbara Kingsolver move to Tucson?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes Kingsolver an American author? How does she envision her Americanism in her essays?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate how consistent Barbara Kingsolver is with her own message. How much does she practice what she preaches? Where does she contradict herself, and how does she handle the contradiction?

Essay Topic 3

Write an evaluative review of "High Tide in Tucson". What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

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