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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 kind of musical training had Barbara Kingsolver had?
(a) She had been in amateur groups before.
(b) Music scholarship for classical piano.
(c) She had sung in the church choir.
(d) She had played in clubs and bars.

2. What makes writing rewarding for Barbara Kingsolver?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Persistence.
(c) Rhythm.
(d) Talent.

3. What was Horse Lick Creek threatened by, when Barbara Kingsolver visited?
(a) Militarization.
(b) Development.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Gentrification.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Barbara Kingsolver think people would see her after she and her husband divorced?

3. What did Barbara Kingsolver expect would take her away from the band?

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

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver use less as she wrote her books?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

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

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

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

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