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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 development does Barbara Kingsolver describe as a survival tool people acquired 'in the beginning'?
2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say the librarian might have seen in her?
3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say early anthropologists say about hunting?
4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was stronger in the place where she lived when Camille was four?
5. What example does Barbara Kingsolver give us, to justify her characterization of her physique?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Barbara Kingsolver take up this meditation on monogamy in nature?
2. Describe Kingsolver's trip to La Gomera.
3. Where does intellectual testing come from, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?
4. What was Barbara Kingsolver's solution to the question of private property in her new home in Tucson?
5. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say the Terrible Twos and the teen years are dreaded by parents?
6. What problem does Barbara Kingsolver say her school system was plagued by, in 'How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life'?
7. What balance does Barbara Kingsolver have to strike in parenting Camille through her terrible twos?
8. What was Camille's experience of Spain like?
9. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her own parents' generation's parenting style?
10. What does the title of this essay signify?
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
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 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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