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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 predisposes human males to infidelity, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say she spent as little time as possible on?

3. Why were women relegated to household chores, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian introduced her to?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian might have seen in her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the reaction to her books in her hometown?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about who should be a parent?

3. Describe Kingsolver's trip to La Gomera.

4. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her wardrobe in high school?

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

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

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

8. Where does intellectual testing come from, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?

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

10. How does Barbara Kingsolver describe her experience at the health club?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who do you think is the audience for Barbara Kingsolver's essays, and what do you think characterizes those readers? Who would be least likely to read Barbara Kingsolver, and why? What objections could readers make to her work?

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 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?

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