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

2. What would Barbara Kingsolver find on the sidewalk in front of her house before she moved to Tucson?

3. What did Camille do on purpose, when Barbara Kingsolver warned her not to?

4. What omen accompanied Barbara Kingsolver's arrival in La Gomera?

5. How does Barbara Kingsolver compare the U.S. to other countries in terms of education?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Barbara Kingsolver get Buster?

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

3. What balance does Barbara Kingsolver have to strike in parenting Camille through her terrible twos?

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

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

6. Where does the idea of private property come from?

7. How did America and Europe compare in terms of childrearing, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What rules of writing does Barbara Kingsolver seem to follow in her essays? What rules does she break? What does Kingsolver's approach to the rules tell us about her literary self?

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 the basis of Kingsolver's critique of violence and warfare? Is she mounting a philosophical attack on warfare, or is she merely expressing her disagreement with violent methods?

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