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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 instrument did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter play at the Museum?

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

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

4. What was Horse Lick Creek threatened by, when Barbara Kingsolver visited?

5. When would Barbara Kingsolver remember her childhood?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

8. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who do you think is the audience for Barbara Kingsolver's essays, and what do you think characterizes those readers? Who would be least likely to read Barbara Kingsolver, and why? What objections could readers make to her work?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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