View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about nuclear weapons?

2. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the majority of her fan mail?

3. Who is Steve?

4. What was Barbara Kingsolver inspired by, in this writer?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver begin to use more of as she wrote her later books?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why was Barbara Kingsolver reticent about visiting the Titan Missile Museum?

5. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the basis of Kingsolver's critique of violence and warfare? Is she mounting a philosophical attack on warfare, or is she merely expressing her disagreement with violent methods?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate how consistent Barbara Kingsolver is with her own message. How much does she practice what she preaches? Where does she contradict herself, and how does she handle the contradiction?

Essay Topic 3

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 764 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample