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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 is the Heard Museum a center for?

2. Why were the Titan Missiles decommissioned, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?

3. How would Barbara Kingsolver answer this question?

4. What was unique about Haleakala?

5. What was Horse Lick Creek threatened by, when Barbara Kingsolver visited?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why was Barbara Kingsolver told to 'love it or leave it'?

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

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

5. What does Barbara Kingsolver see at the Hiroshima Museum?

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

7. Why was Kingsolver reluctant to join the Rock Bottom Remainders?

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

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

10. How did Kingsolver learn to handle the question 'what is your book about'?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What contradictions are at the center of Barbara Kingsolver's work? What questions does she puzzle over without resolving them? What balances between irreconcilable oppositions does she strike?

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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