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

2. What instrument did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter play at the Museum?
(a) Drums.
(b) Clarinet.
(c) Piano.
(d) Pan pipes.

3. Why was Barbara Kingsolver sad when she collected mussels from Horse Lick Creek?
(a) The species was adapting to pollution and changing color.
(b) The species were overpopulating the creek.
(c) The species was dying out.
(d) The species was not a native species.

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver use less as she wrote her books?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Violence.
(d) Flawed protagonists.

5. What are Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about nuclear weapons?
(a) They should be banned.
(b) They work as effective deterrents.
(c) They should only be possessed by two or three nations.
(d) They should only be used to avert all-out war.

6. Why were the Titan Missiles decommissioned, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?
(a) They were inaccurate.
(b) They were obsolete.
(c) They leaked radiation.
(d) They malfunctioned.

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

8. When does Barbara Kingsolver say Camille feels bad about being from a divorced home?
(a) When mothers won't let their children play with her.
(b) When her mother is late to pick her up from school.
(c) When she wakes up in the night with nightmares.
(d) When people say they feel bad for her.

9. What was Barbara Kingsolver told during protests?
(a) Love America or leave it.
(b) Honk for peace.
(c) Hug a tree.
(d) Better dead than red.

10. When would Barbara Kingsolver remember her childhood?
(a) When life got her down.
(b) When she thought life was too easy.
(c) When she started a new book.
(d) When she was anxious about her siblings.

11. What is Barbara Kingsolver sure Americans don't know about Iraq and Kuwait?
(a) That they provide our Americans' oil.
(b) That they are American allies.
(c) That they have oppressive governments.
(d) That they are in the Middle East.

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

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

14. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the majority of her fan mail?
(a) Hostile.
(b) Critical.
(c) Encouraging.
(d) Pandering.

15. What was Camille thrilled by at Horse Lick Creek?
(a) Ancient ruins.
(b) Deer tracks.
(c) Crayfish.
(d) Cliff dwellings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument was Barbara Kingsolver asked to play in a band?

2. What was Horse Lick Creek threatened by, when Barbara Kingsolver visited?

3. Why did Barbara Kingsolver finally visit the Titan Missile Museum?

4. Who was in this band with Barbara Kingsolver?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver begin to use more of as she wrote her later books?

(see the answer keys)

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