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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 kind of musical training had Barbara Kingsolver had?

2. What was unique about Haleakala?

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her fan mail?

4. What makes writing rewarding for Barbara Kingsolver?

5. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the effect of 'Silence of the Lambs'?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was Barbara Kingsolver's experience with the Rock Bottom Remainders?

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

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

8. What note does "High Tide in Tucson" end on?

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

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

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

What makes Kingsolver an American author? How does she envision her Americanism in her essays?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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