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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. Who was in this band with Barbara Kingsolver?

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

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her fan mail?

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver expect would take her away from the band?

5. Whose work was Barbara Kingsolver reading during this work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why had Barbara Kingsolver gone to Cotonou to visit?

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

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

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

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

10. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What rules of writing does Barbara Kingsolver seem to follow in her essays? What rules does she break? What does Kingsolver's approach to the rules tell us about her literary self?

Essay Topic 2

Analyzing the various essays in "High Tide in Tucson", describe the impact Kingsolver's family had on her. What aspects of their influence does she cherish? What aspects has she distanced herself from? How has she compensated for the guilt that comes from distance?

Essay Topic 3

What does Barbara Kingsolver tell us about her marriages in these essays? What are her thoughts on marriage? Does Kingsolver's divorce and re-marriage form a consistent theme, or just a loose background presence?

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