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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 animal went extinct in the environment Barbara Kingsolver visited?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver and a friend ask to do at the mall?

3. When does Barbara Kingsolver say Camille feels bad about being from a divorced home?

4. What made Barbara Kingsolver feel that she was being patriotic?

5. Why did Barbara Kingsolver finally visit the Titan Missile Museum?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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

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.

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