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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. When was Barbara Kingsolver's daughter Camille a handful?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say happens to a woman's standard of living after a divorce?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say worked against her in high school?

5. What period did Steinberg conclude was most trying or parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the 'high tide of Tucson' a metaphor for?

6. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her daughter at age two?

7. What does the title of this essay signify?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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 is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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