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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 did Barbara Kingsolver find out about the creature's spells of dormancy?

2. What did one boy compare Barbara Kingsolver to in high school?

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the mating ritual of the octopus?

4. Who made it through the trying times most successfully, according to Laurence Steinberg?

5. Where was Barbara Kingsolver's contraband creature discovered?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was Buster's 'personality' like?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about American education?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Define each of Barbara Kingsolver's modes, and describe what you think is her primary or strongest mode as an essayist. What type of essay is she best at? What is her weakest suit?

Essay Topic 3

Analyzing the various essays in "High Tide in Tucson", describe the impact Kingsolver's family had on her. What aspects of their influence does she cherish? What aspects has she distanced herself from? How has she compensated for the guilt that comes from distance?

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