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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. Where does Barbara Kingsolver visit in Essay 19: 'Infernal Paradise'?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Brunei.
(c) London.
(d) Madagascar.

2. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say the people are kept in the dark about wars?
(a) To protect them from hard truths.
(b) To preserve the illusion of prosperity and peace.
(c) To protect their support for it.
(d) To insulate politicians from criticism.

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

4. What instrument was Barbara Kingsolver asked to play in a band?
(a) Keyboard.
(b) Trombone.
(c) Flute.
(d) Violin.

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver say her readers assume about her work?
(a) That she writes from newspaper clippings.
(b) That she is making everything up.
(c) That she is writing for admiration.
(d) That she bases her characters on people in her life.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Somba the birthplace of, according to Barbara Kingsolver?

3. What is in stone soup?

4. What question did Barbara Kingsolver dislike having to answer?

5. When were the Titan Missiles outside of Tucson taken out of service?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

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

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

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

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

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