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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 did one boy compare Barbara Kingsolver to in high school?
2. Whose loyalty does Barbara Kingsolver describe when she describes human loyalty?
3. Where did Barbara Kingsolver travel to in 1991?
4. What did Barbara Kingsolver find out about the creature's spells of dormancy?
5. What did Barbara Kingsolver buy in the unnamed town she found?
Short Essay Questions
1. What balance does Barbara Kingsolver have to strike in parenting Camille through her terrible twos?
2. What was Barbara Kingsolver's solution to the question of private property in her new home in Tucson?
3. Why does Barbara Kingsolver say the Terrible Twos and the teen years are dreaded by parents?
4. How would the Native Indians in Tucson bring rain after the dry season, according to Barbara Kingsolver?
5. What did Barbara Kingsolver find when she started to read?
6. Where does intellectual testing come from, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?
7. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her own parents' generation's parenting style?
8. What problem does Barbara Kingsolver say her school system was plagued by, in 'How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life'?
9. Describe Kingsolver's trip to La Gomera.
10. Why does Barbara Kingsolver take up this meditation on monogamy in nature?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Write an evaluative review of "High Tide in Tucson". What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?
Essay Topic 3
How has moving affected Barbara Kingsolver's life and outlook? What have the advantages and disadvantages of moving been? What trade-offs has it involved?
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