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

2. Whom did Barbara Kingsolver silently thank during her visit to Horse Lick Creek?
(a) The Native Americans.
(b) Her parents.
(c) All her relations.
(d) Her daughter.

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

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver and a friend ask to do at the mall?
(a) Organize a benefit concert.
(b) Sell raffle tickets to raise money for peace organizations.
(c) Hold a protest.
(d) Hand out pamphlets about the war.

5. What instrument was Barbara Kingsolver asked to play in a band?
(a) Keyboard.
(b) Trombone.
(c) Violin.
(d) Flute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver use less as she wrote her books?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the justification for suppressing this information?

3. When were the Titan Missiles outside of Tucson taken out of service?

4. What was Horse Lick Creek threatened by, when Barbara Kingsolver visited?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

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

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

5. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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

8. Describe Kingsolver's training as an animal behaviorist.

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

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

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