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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. Under what conditions will the pupfish be monogamous, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

2. Who discovered Barbara Kingsolver's contraband?

3. What geo-political events motivated Barbara Kingsolver to travel?

4. What development does Barbara Kingsolver describe as a survival tool people acquired 'in the beginning'?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver allow her daughter to do, in their time together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Barbara Kingsolver's philosophy for raising her own daughter?

2. What inequality does Barbara Kingsolver explore in housekeeping?

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

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

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

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

7. How did Barbara Kingsolver get Buster?

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

9. Describe Kingsolver's trip to La Gomera.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What effect do Barbara Kingsolver's essays have on you as a reader? What effect do you think Kingsolver was aiming to have with her essays? What about you and what about Kingsolver explains the difference?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What contradictions are at the center of Barbara Kingsolver's work? What questions does she puzzle over without resolving them? What balances between irreconcilable oppositions does she strike?

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