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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 did Barbara Kingsolver want her daughter to learn at the Heard Museum?

2. What makes writing rewarding for Barbara Kingsolver?

3. What drew Barbara Kingsolver and her second husband together?

4. What was unique about Haleakala?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say could be purchased at Turner's General Store?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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