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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 conclusion does Barbara Kingsolver reach about activism?
(a) The national culture is beyond one person's ability to change.
(b) To change anything, start with your own habits.
(c) To be a citizen involves accepting the nation's actions.
(d) To love your country is to stay and improve it.

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

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say could be purchased at Turner's General Store?
(a) Beer.
(b) Lumber.
(c) Worms.
(d) Hunting licenses.

4. How did Barbara Kingsolver think people would see her after she and her husband divorced?
(a) As an impostor.
(b) As a charity case.
(c) As scandalous.
(d) As a fallen woman.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the justification for suppressing this information?
(a) Morality.
(b) Decency.
(c) Aesthetics.
(d) Obscenity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Barbara Kingsolver's friends doing in Africa?

2. In essay 16: 'Postcards from an Imaginary Mom', how long was Barbara Kingsolver on book tour for?

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

4. Where does Barbara Kingsolver say she is questioned most?

5. What is the Heard Museum a center for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

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

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

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

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