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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What resulted from the need to hunt, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

2. What was Camille told every day when she was four?

3. How do Barbara Kingsolver's meditations on private property relate to her thoughts about moving to Tucson?

4. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the difference between mothering now and when she was a child?

5. What is the purpose of revisionist history, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would the Native Indians in Tucson bring rain after the dry season, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

2. What balance does Barbara Kingsolver have to strike in parenting Camille through her terrible twos?

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver find when she started to read?

4. Why does Barbara Kingsolver take up this meditation on monogamy in nature?

5. Why did Barbara Kingsolver move to Tucson?

6. What was Camille's experience of Spain like?

7. What was Barbara Kingsolver's solution to the question of private property in her new home in Tucson?

8. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say the Terrible Twos and the teen years are dreaded by parents?

9. What does the title of this essay signify?

10. What did Barbara Kingsolver get when she asked for go-go-boots?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does "High Tide in Tucson" work as a coherent book, or is it just a jumbled collection of unrelated essays? Analyze the thematic coherence of the collection of essays.

Essay Topic 2

How does Barbara Kingsolver balance following her own 'tides' and being self-critical or aware of the tides that move other people or things?

Essay Topic 3

What rules of writing does Barbara Kingsolver seem to follow in her essays? What rules does she break? What does Kingsolver's approach to the rules tell us about her literary self?

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