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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 did Barbara Kingsolver's book tour entail?
(a) Multi-day courses at colleges.
(b) Sit-ins and hunger strikes.
(c) Long stays with patrons.
(d) A different city every day.

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

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

4. What kind of musical training had Barbara Kingsolver had?
(a) Music scholarship for classical piano.
(b) She had been in amateur groups before.
(c) She had played in clubs and bars.
(d) She had sung in the church choir.

5. 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 crawfish.
(d) Catching birds build nests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say could be purchased at Turner's General Store?

2. What was Barbara Kingsolver inspired by, in this writer?

3. Where is the Heard Museum?

4. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her fan mail?

5. When does Barbara Kingsolver say Camille feels bad about being from a divorced home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What critique does Barbara Kingsolver make of violence in American art and culture?

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