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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. What is Haleakala?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A road.
(c) A volcano.
(d) A beach.

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver say is the consequence of watching violent films?
(a) Understanding the roots of violence.
(b) Acting out violently.
(c) Understanding the consequences of violence.
(d) Protecting against violence.

3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the most important part of her experience as a rock star?
(a) She met men after her husband left her.
(b) She got to be under the lights.
(c) She made money.
(d) Her daughter thought it was cool.

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver want her daughter to learn at the Heard Museum?
(a) To appreciate Native Americans' culture.
(b) To respect the mysteries of life and death.
(c) To pay attention to art work.
(d) To see from outside of her own culture.

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver expect would take her away from the band?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Journalism assignments.
(c) Illness.
(d) Book tour.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Barbara Kingsolver reluctant to join the band?

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

3. What was Barbara Kingsolver told during protests?

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

5. Where does Barbara Kingsolver say she is questioned most?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver find when she hiked into the bottom of the volcano at Haleakala?

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

6. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

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

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

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

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