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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. Where does Barbara Kingsolver say she is questioned most?

2. When would Barbara Kingsolver remember her childhood?

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

4. Which of these things did Barbara Kingsolver NOT remember when she took Camille to visit her childhood home?

5. What did Barbara Kingsolver build behind her house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Kingsolver's training as an animal behaviorist.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What were Barbara Kingsolver's thoughts about going on book tour?

9. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

What value does nature have, in Kingsolver's essays, and how does Kingsolver reconcile the activity of being in nature with the activity of reading and writing books? Are they related? Are they unrelated? Are they complementary, antagonistic?

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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