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

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

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

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter make at the Museum?
(a) Dolls.
(b) Twig animals.
(c) Rugs.
(d) Bone whistles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in stone soup?

2. What was unique about Haleakala?

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

4. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say the people are kept in the dark about wars?

5. When would Barbara Kingsolver remember her childhood?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Barbara Kingsolver leave the U.S. for Spain, and what did her time away teach her?

3. Why did Barbara Kingsolver take Camille to see at the Heard Museum?

4. What did Kingsolver remember about her hometown in Kentucky when she took her daughter to visit there?

5. What kinds of response did Barbara Kingsolver typically receive from fans?

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

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

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

9. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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