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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. How was the poaching of silverwood stopped?

2. Why were the Titan Missiles decommissioned, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?

3. What makes writing rewarding for Barbara Kingsolver?

4. Which of these things did Barbara Kingsolver NOT remember when she took Camille to visit her childhood home?

5. Why did it take Barbara Kingsolver a long time to visit the Titan Missile Museum outside of Tucson?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kinds of response did Barbara Kingsolver typically receive from fans?

3. Describe Kingsolver's training as an animal behaviorist.

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

5. What did Kingsolver remember about her hometown in Kentucky when she took her daughter to visit there?

6. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about how the Africans greeted her?

7. Why was Barbara Kingsolver reticent about visiting the Titan Missile Museum?

8. What does Barbara Kingsolver find when she hiked into the bottom of the volcano at Haleakala?

9. What critique does Barbara Kingsolver make of violence in American art and culture?

10. How did Kingsolver learn to handle the question 'what is your book about'?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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