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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. Why did it take Barbara Kingsolver a long time to visit the Titan Missile Museum outside of Tucson?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver build behind her house?

3. Why was Barbara Kingsolver reluctant to join the band?

4. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her fan mail?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What kinds of response did Barbara Kingsolver typically receive from fans?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver see at the Hiroshima Museum?

5. Why was Barbara Kingsolver told to 'love it or leave it'?

6. What threats to the Hawaiian ecosystems does Barbara Kingsolver describe?

7. What critique does Barbara Kingsolver make of violence in American art and culture?

8. Describe Kingsolver's training as an animal behaviorist.

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

10. What did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter do at the Heard Museum?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Barbara Kingsolver a typical liberal? Analyze her essays for evidence of Kingsolver's political persuasion, and evaluate it in relation to the spectrum of political views in America.

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

What effect do Barbara Kingsolver's essays have on you as a reader? What effect do you think Kingsolver was aiming to have with her essays? What about you and what about Kingsolver explains the difference?

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