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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. How was the poaching of silverwood stopped?

2. What sound woke Barbara Kingsolver on her first morning in Cotonou?

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

4. Why couldn't Barbara Kingsolver refuse to go on book tour?

5. What job did Barbara Kingsolver take at 25?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Kingsolver remember about her hometown in Kentucky when she took her daughter to visit there?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What contradictions are at the center of Barbara Kingsolver's work? What questions does she puzzle over without resolving them? What balances between irreconcilable oppositions does she strike?

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