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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job did Barbara Kingsolver take at 25?
(a) Activist.
(b) Pianist.
(c) Animal behaviorist.
(d) Writer.

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

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the justification for suppressing this information?
(a) Obscenity.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Morality.
(d) Decency.

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

5. What was Horse Lick Creek threatened by, when Barbara Kingsolver visited?
(a) Militarization.
(b) Development.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Gentrification.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drew Barbara Kingsolver and her second husband together?

2. When were the Titan Missiles outside of Tucson taken out of service?

3. What conclusion does Barbara Kingsolver reach about activism?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Kingsolver's idea of a family in 'Stone Soup'?

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

3. Why had Barbara Kingsolver gone to Cotonou to visit?

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

5. What were Barbara Kingsolver's thoughts about going on book tour?

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

7. What does Barbara Kingsolver find when she hiked into the bottom of the volcano at Haleakala?

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

9. What does Kingsolver mean by invoking the notion of stone soup?

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

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