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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 makes writing rewarding for Barbara Kingsolver?

2. How would Barbara Kingsolver answer this question?

3. What job did Barbara Kingsolver take at 25?

4. What were Barbara Kingsolver's friends doing in Africa?

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the worst thing about book tour?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Does "High Tide in Tucson" work as a coherent book, or is it just a jumbled collection of unrelated essays? Analyze the thematic coherence of the collection of essays.

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