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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 would the creature do after these periods of dormancy?

2. What is the difference between men's and women's salaries after a divorce, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?

3. How long does Barbara Kingsolver say it would take her mother a full week to do?

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

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver beg her parents for one Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her own parents' generation's parenting style?

3. What inequality does Barbara Kingsolver explore in housekeeping?

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

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

6. What is Barbara Kingsolver's philosophy of housekeeping?

7. Why does Barbara Kingsolver discuss the origins of human agriculture?

8. What lesson is Barbara Kingsolver trying to teach her daughter about housekeeping?

9. How did the librarian save Barbara Kingsolver from her school's limitations?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What contradictions are at the center of Barbara Kingsolver's work? What questions does she puzzle over without resolving them? What balances between irreconcilable oppositions does she strike?

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

Evaluate your own reading of "High Tide in Tucson"--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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