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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 were Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about being a 'rock star'?

2. How did Barbara Kingsolver think people would see her after she and her husband divorced?

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter make at the Museum?

4. Whom did Barbara Kingsolver silently thank during her visit to Horse Lick Creek?

5. What was Barbara Kingsolver inspired by, in this writer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Kingsolver reluctant to join the Rock Bottom Remainders?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver see at the Hiroshima Museum?

3. What does Kingsolver mean by invoking the notion of stone soup?

4. What were Barbara Kingsolver's thoughts about going on book tour?

5. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

6. What is Kingsolver's idea of a family in 'Stone Soup'?

7. What did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter do at the Heard Museum?

8. Why did Barbara Kingsolver leave the U.S. for Spain, and what did her time away teach her?

9. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about the difference between her fiction and her non-fiction?

10. What threats to the Hawaiian ecosystems does Barbara Kingsolver describe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What value does nature have, in Kingsolver's essays, and how does Kingsolver reconcile the activity of being in nature with the activity of reading and writing books? Are they related? Are they unrelated? Are they complementary, antagonistic?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

How has moving affected Barbara Kingsolver's life and outlook? What have the advantages and disadvantages of moving been? What trade-offs has it involved?

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