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

2. Where does Barbara Kingsolver say she is questioned most?
(a) Her essays.
(b) Her fiction.
(c) Her non-fiction.
(d) Her poetry.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver use less as she wrote her books?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Violence.
(d) Flawed protagonists.

4. What was unique about Haleakala?
(a) The beach had pink sand.
(b) The restaurant served fish that only lived in the lake in that volcano.
(c) The volcano created its own climate.
(d) The road was extremely windy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the justification for suppressing this information?

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver want her daughter to learn at the Heard Museum?

4. What were Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about being a 'rock star'?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What threats to the Hawaiian ecosystems does Barbara Kingsolver describe?

5. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

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

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

9. How did Kingsolver learn to handle the question 'what is your book about'?

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

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