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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the effect of 'Silence of the Lambs'?
(a) Pure fantasy.
(b) Harmful to society.
(c) Useful, dream-like catharsis.
(d) Constructive criticism for society.

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

4. What instrument was Barbara Kingsolver asked to play in a band?
(a) Keyboard.
(b) Violin.
(c) Flute.
(d) Trombone.

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

6. Who is Steve?
(a) Barbara Kingsolver's brother.
(b) Barbara Kingsolver's traveling partner.
(c) Camille's father.
(d) Camille's cousin.

7. Where does Barbara Kingsolver visit in Essay 19: 'Infernal Paradise'?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Brunei.
(c) London.
(d) Madagascar.

8. Whom did Barbara Kingsolver silently thank during her visit to Horse Lick Creek?
(a) The Native Americans.
(b) Her parents.
(c) All her relations.
(d) Her daughter.

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

10. In essay 16: 'Postcards from an Imaginary Mom', how long was Barbara Kingsolver on book tour for?
(a) Four weeks.
(b) Three months.
(c) A year.
(d) Three weeks.

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

12. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say the people are kept in the dark about wars?
(a) To insulate politicians from criticism.
(b) To protect their support for it.
(c) To preserve the illusion of prosperity and peace.
(d) To protect them from hard truths.

13. Why did Barbara Kingsolver finally visit the Titan Missile Museum?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) An assignment.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Barbara Kingsolver take at 25?

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the hotel in Cotonou?

3. What myth does Barbara Kingsolver say is starting to be exposed?

4. How was the poaching of silverwood stopped?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say her readers assume about her work?

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