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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. Why were Barbara Kingsolver's friends jealous of her book tour?
(a) She was traveling first class.
(b) She was getting to see the U.S.
(c) She was going to be famous.
(d) She was going to be rich.

2. How would Barbara Kingsolver answer this question?
(a) By changing the topic.
(b) By imagining Tolstoy explaining what "War and Peace" was about.
(c) By yelling at the person who asked.
(d) By explaining patiently.

3. What drew Barbara Kingsolver and her second husband together?
(a) Political activism.
(b) He was her editor.
(c) Love of nature.
(d) She got pregnant.

4. Who is Steve?
(a) Barbara Kingsolver's traveling partner.
(b) Camille's father.
(c) Camille's cousin.
(d) Barbara Kingsolver's brother.

5. What made Barbara Kingsolver feel that she was being patriotic?
(a) Protesting peace protests.
(b) Protesting the Gulf War.
(c) Petitioning to boycott Iraqi goods.
(d) Buying American-made goods.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose work was Barbara Kingsolver reading during this work?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver accuse the American military of doing to Iraq in 1991?

4. What conclusion does Barbara Kingsolver reach about activism?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter make at the Museum?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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