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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 was Barbara Kingsolver inspired by, in this writer?
(a) His curiosity.
(b) His peacefulness.
(c) His success.
(d) His enlightenment.

2. What were Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about being a 'rock star'?
(a) She was disappointed when she realized what along shot it was.
(b) She was not enthusiastic.
(c) She was secretly hungry for fame.
(d) She was openly hungry for fame.

3. 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) No one would know who she was.
(d) Her fans would have abandoned her.

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver accuse the American military of doing to Iraq in 1991?
(a) Selling its debt.
(b) Crippling its nuclear programs.
(c) Destroying the water system.
(d) Massacring its people.

5. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say the people are kept in the dark about wars?
(a) To preserve the illusion of prosperity and peace.
(b) To insulate politicians from criticism.
(c) To protect their support for it.
(d) To protect them from hard truths.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Barbara Kingsolver think people would see her after she and her husband divorced?

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

3. What instrument was Barbara Kingsolver asked to play in a band?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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