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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. Where does Barbara Kingsolver say she is questioned most?

2. In essay 16: 'Postcards from an Imaginary Mom', how long was Barbara Kingsolver on book tour for?

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her fan mail?

4. Who was in this band with Barbara Kingsolver?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the most important part of her experience as a rock star?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Barbara Kingsolver take Camille to see at the Heard Museum?

8. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

Is Barbara Kingsolver a typical liberal? Analyze her essays for evidence of Kingsolver's political persuasion, and evaluate it in relation to the spectrum of political views in America.

Essay Topic 3

How does Barbara Kingsolver balance following her own 'tides' and being self-critical or aware of the tides that move other people or things?

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