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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in stone soup?
(a) Chicken stock and potatoes.
(b) Potatoes, carrots and kale.
(c) Rice and lamb.
(d) Whatever people can throw in.

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

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

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the most important part of her experience as a rock star?
(a) She met men after her husband left her.
(b) Her daughter thought it was cool.
(c) She got to be under the lights.
(d) She made money.

5. Whose work was Barbara Kingsolver reading during this work?
(a) T. S. Eliot.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Thoreau.
(d) Faulkner.

6. What does Barbara Kingsolver begin to use more of as she wrote her later books?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Flawed protagonists.
(d) Violence.

7. What is the Heard Museum a center for?
(a) Spanish-American history.
(b) Pioneer culture.
(c) Native American culture.
(d) Manifest Destiny.

8. What question did Barbara Kingsolver dislike having to answer?
(a) What is your book about?
(b) What are you working on now?
(c) How do you survive having been divorced?
(d) How do you support yourself?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Somba the birthplace of, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver use less as she wrote her books?

3. Where does Barbara Kingsolver visit in Essay 19: 'Infernal Paradise'?

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver and a friend ask to do at the mall?

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

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