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

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

3. What is Haleakala?
(a) A beach.
(b) A road.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A volcano.

4. 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.

5. Where is the Heard Museum?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tenerife.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Tucson.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the poaching of silverwood stopped?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver begin to use more of as she wrote her later books?

3. What job did Barbara Kingsolver take at 25?

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

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say could be purchased at Turner's General Store?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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

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

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

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

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