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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 is Haleakala?
(a) A road.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A beach.
(d) A volcano.

2. 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 protect their support for it.
(c) To protect them from hard truths.
(d) To insulate politicians from criticism.

3. Why was Barbara Kingsolver sad when she collected mussels from Horse Lick Creek?
(a) The species was dying out.
(b) The species were overpopulating the creek.
(c) The species was adapting to pollution and changing color.
(d) The species was not a native species.

4. What crop crowded out native plants in the environment Barbara Kingsolver visited?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Eucalyptus.
(c) Corn.
(d) Sugar cane.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her fan mail?

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

5. What is Barbara Kingsolver sure Americans don't know about Iraq and Kuwait?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

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

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

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

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