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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. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the majority of her fan mail?
(a) Critical.
(b) Pandering.
(c) Encouraging.
(d) Hostile.

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

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver begin to use more of as she wrote her later books?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Violence.
(d) Flawed protagonists.

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

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the most important part of her experience as a rock star?
(a) She met men after her husband left her.
(b) She made money.
(c) Her daughter thought it was cool.
(d) She got to be under the lights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information does Barbara Kingsolver say the Pentagon suppressed?

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

3. Where is the Heard Museum?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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