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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. How was the poaching of silverwood stopped?
(a) By harsh fines for poachers.
(b) The silverwood trade was regulated.
(c) Silverwood went extinct.
(d) Nature preserves were established.

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

3. Why was Barbara Kingsolver reluctant to join the band?
(a) The other players were not very good.
(b) She had not played in a long time.
(c) She didn't have time for all the rehearsing.
(d) She didn't want to embarrass herself.

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

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver want her daughter to learn at the Heard Museum?
(a) To respect the mysteries of life and death.
(b) To see from outside of her own culture.
(c) To pay attention to art work.
(d) To appreciate Native Americans' culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crop crowded out native plants in the environment Barbara Kingsolver visited?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the most important part of her experience as a rock star?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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