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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 Laurence Steinberg study?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver buy in the unnamed town she found?

3. What is the difference between men's and women's salaries after a divorce, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?

4. What does Barbara Kingsolver say her school system would not have prepared her for?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver beg her parents for one Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Barbara Kingsolver characterize her own parents' generation's parenting style?

2. What did Barbara Kingsolver find when she started to read?

3. Why Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter travel to Tenerife?

4. Where does intellectual testing come from, in Barbara Kingsolver's opinion?

5. Why does Barbara Kingsolver take up this meditation on monogamy in nature?

6. What was Buster's 'personality' like?

7. How did Barbara Kingsolver get Buster?

8. Where does the idea of private property come from?

9. What does Barbara Kingsolver say was the reaction to her books in her hometown?

10. What did Barbara Kingsolver get when she asked for go-go-boots?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes Kingsolver an American author? How does she envision her Americanism in her essays?

Essay Topic 2

Analyzing the various essays in "High Tide in Tucson", describe the impact Kingsolver's family had on her. What aspects of their influence does she cherish? What aspects has she distanced herself from? How has she compensated for the guilt that comes from distance?

Essay Topic 3

What does Barbara Kingsolver tell us about her marriages in these essays? What are her thoughts on marriage? Does Kingsolver's divorce and re-marriage form a consistent theme, or just a loose background presence?

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