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

2. What sound woke Barbara Kingsolver on her first morning in Cotonou?

3. When would Barbara Kingsolver remember her childhood?

4. What conclusion does Barbara Kingsolver reach about activism?

5. Why couldn't Barbara Kingsolver refuse to go on book tour?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Evaluate how consistent Barbara Kingsolver is with her own message. How much does she practice what she preaches? Where does she contradict herself, and how does she handle the contradiction?

Essay Topic 3

Does "High Tide in Tucson" work as a coherent book, or is it just a jumbled collection of unrelated essays? Analyze the thematic coherence of the collection of essays.

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