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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 skill did Camille develop during Barbara Kingsolver's travels with her?

2. Whose loyalty does Barbara Kingsolver describe when she describes human loyalty?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the priority in college?

4. What was Barbara Kingsolver fleeing from in the U.S.?

5. What is the 'Tide of Tucson'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the title of this essay signify?

2. How did Barbara Kingsolver's sense of fashion change as she grew up?

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the population of Tucson when she lives there?

4. Why Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter travel to Tenerife?

5. What is E. O. Wilson's theory on monogamy in human beings?

6. What inequality does Barbara Kingsolver explore in housekeeping?

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

8. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about photographs and memories?

9. What problem does Barbara Kingsolver say her school system was plagued by, in 'How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life'?

10. Describe Kingsolver's trip to La Gomera.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What value does nature have, in Kingsolver's essays, and how does Kingsolver reconcile the activity of being in nature with the activity of reading and writing books? Are they related? Are they unrelated? Are they complementary, antagonistic?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What effect do Barbara Kingsolver's essays have on you as a reader? What effect do you think Kingsolver was aiming to have with her essays? What about you and what about Kingsolver explains the difference?

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