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

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

3. What were Barbara Kingsolver's friends doing in Africa?
(a) Missionary work.
(b) Teaching English.
(c) Peace Corps.
(d) Doctors Without Borders.

4. What kind of musical training had Barbara Kingsolver had?
(a) She had played in clubs and bars.
(b) She had sung in the church choir.
(c) She had been in amateur groups before.
(d) Music scholarship for classical piano.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Haleakala?

2. What instrument did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter play at the Museum?

3. What was Barbara Kingsolver told during protests?

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

5. What question did Barbara Kingsolver dislike having to answer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Kingsolver's training as an animal behaviorist.

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

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

4. What note does "High Tide in Tucson" end on?

5. Why was Barbara Kingsolver reticent about visiting the Titan Missile Museum?

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

7. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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

10. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about the difference between her fiction and her non-fiction?

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