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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Barbara Kingsolver sad when she collected mussels from Horse Lick Creek?
(a) The species was adapting to pollution and changing color.
(b) The species was dying out.
(c) The species were overpopulating the creek.
(d) The species was not a native species.

2. What myth does Barbara Kingsolver say is starting to be exposed?
(a) The myth that families can survive in isolation.
(b) The myth that marriage should be blissful.
(c) The myth that spouses continue to love each other throughout marriage.
(d) The myth that success comes from hard work.

3. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the hotel in Cotonou?
(a) Ramshackle.
(b) Dilapidated.
(c) Pristine.
(d) Immaculate.

4. What question did Barbara Kingsolver dislike having to answer?
(a) What is your book about?
(b) How do you survive having been divorced?
(c) What are you working on now?
(d) How do you support yourself?

5. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize the majority of her fan mail?
(a) Hostile.
(b) Critical.
(c) Pandering.
(d) Encouraging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the justification for suppressing this information?

2. Who was in this band with Barbara Kingsolver?

3. What were Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about being a 'rock star'?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the most important part of her experience as a rock star?

5. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say the people are kept in the dark about wars?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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