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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the worst thing about book tour?
(a) Missing her daughter.
(b) The constant travel.
(c) The fake questions.
(d) The small crowds.

3. What myth does Barbara Kingsolver say is starting to be exposed?
(a) The myth that families can survive in isolation.
(b) The myth that spouses continue to love each other throughout marriage.
(c) The myth that marriage should be blissful.
(d) The myth that success comes from hard work.

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

5. How would Barbara Kingsolver answer this question?
(a) By imagining Tolstoy explaining what "War and Peace" was about.
(b) By yelling at the person who asked.
(c) By changing the topic.
(d) By explaining patiently.

6. What does Barbara Kingsolver accuse the American military of doing to Iraq in 1991?
(a) Destroying the water system.
(b) Selling its debt.
(c) Crippling its nuclear programs.
(d) Massacring its people.

7. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her fan mail?
(a) Entertaining.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Flattering.
(d) Goofy.

8. What did Barbara Kingsolver build behind her house?
(a) An outhouse.
(b) A pond.
(c) A dog run.
(d) A garden.

9. What drew Barbara Kingsolver and her second husband together?
(a) Love of nature.
(b) He was her editor.
(c) Political activism.
(d) She got pregnant.

10. What did Barbara Kingsolver and a friend ask to do at the mall?
(a) Organize a benefit concert.
(b) Sell raffle tickets to raise money for peace organizations.
(c) Hold a protest.
(d) Hand out pamphlets about the war.

11. What animal went extinct in the environment Barbara Kingsolver visited?
(a) Passenger pigeon.
(b) Komodo dragon.
(c) Mongoose.
(d) Dodo bird.

12. What is Haleakala?
(a) A volcano.
(b) A road.
(c) A beach.
(d) A restaurant.

13. Which of these things did Barbara Kingsolver NOT remember when she took Camille to visit her childhood home?
(a) Collecting leaves to press.
(b) Putting on plays.
(c) Catching crawfish.
(d) Catching birds build nests.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the effect of 'Silence of the Lambs'?

2. What is Barbara Kingsolver sure Americans don't know about Iraq and Kuwait?

3. What was Barbara Kingsolver inspired by, in this writer?

4. Why were the Titan Missiles decommissioned, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?

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

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