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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 does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her fan mail?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver grow up expecting?

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver use less as she wrote her books?

4. What makes writing rewarding for Barbara Kingsolver?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Barbara Kingsolver told to 'love it or leave it'?

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

5. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an evaluative review of "High Tide in Tucson". What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

Define each of Barbara Kingsolver's modes, and describe what you think is her primary or strongest mode as an essayist. What type of essay is she best at? What is her weakest suit?

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