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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 fiction.
(d) Her non-fiction.

2. What did fans write to give Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Suggestions for books.
(b) Pictures of their children.
(c) Gifts.
(d) Recipes.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say her readers assume about her work?
(a) That she is making everything up.
(b) That she bases her characters on people in her life.
(c) That she writes from newspaper clippings.
(d) That she is writing for admiration.

4. Which of these things did Barbara Kingsolver NOT remember when she took Camille to visit her childhood home?
(a) Collecting leaves to press.
(b) Putting on plays.
(c) Catching birds build nests.
(d) Catching crawfish.

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver expect would take her away from the band?
(a) Illness.
(b) Journalism assignments.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Book tour.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the majority of her fan mail?

2. What made Barbara Kingsolver feel that she was being patriotic?

3. What was Camille thrilled by at Horse Lick Creek?

4. What kind of musical training had Barbara Kingsolver had?

5. How was the poaching of silverwood stopped?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Barbara Kingsolver see at the Hiroshima Museum?

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