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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 does Barbara Kingsolver say is the consequence of watching violent films?
(a) Protecting against violence.
(b) Understanding the roots of violence.
(c) Acting out violently.
(d) Understanding the consequences of violence.

2. Why couldn't Barbara Kingsolver refuse to go on book tour?
(a) She would have gained a reputation as an uncooperative author.
(b) She would have lost her next contract.
(c) Her fans would have abandoned her.
(d) No one would know who she was.

3. What is in stone soup?
(a) Potatoes, carrots and kale.
(b) Whatever people can throw in.
(c) Rice and lamb.
(d) Chicken stock and potatoes.

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

5. What instrument did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter play at the Museum?
(a) Piano.
(b) Drums.
(c) Pan pipes.
(d) Clarinet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drew Barbara Kingsolver and her second husband together?

2. What did fans write to give Barbara Kingsolver?

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

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

5. Which of these things did Barbara Kingsolver NOT remember when she took Camille to visit her childhood home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about how the Africans greeted her?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What were Barbara Kingsolver's thoughts about going on book tour?

10. What was Barbara Kingsolver's experience with the Rock Bottom Remainders?

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