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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. Why were the Titan Missiles decommissioned, in Barbara Kingsolver's account?
2. What instrument was Barbara Kingsolver asked to play in a band?
3. What does Barbara Kingsolver accuse the American military of doing to Iraq in 1991?
4. What are Barbara Kingsolver's feelings about nuclear weapons?
5. Which of these things did Barbara Kingsolver NOT remember when she took Camille to visit her childhood home?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Barbara Kingsolver see at the Hiroshima Museum?
2. Why was Kingsolver reluctant to join the Rock Bottom Remainders?
3. What does Barbara Kingsolver say about the difference between her fiction and her non-fiction?
4. What critique does Barbara Kingsolver make of violence in American art and culture?
5. What does Barbara Kingsolver find when she hiked into the bottom of the volcano at Haleakala?
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 note does "High Tide in Tucson" end on?
9. What is Kingsolver's idea of a family in 'Stone Soup'?
10. What were Barbara Kingsolver's thoughts about going on book tour?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who do you think is the audience for Barbara Kingsolver's essays, and what do you think characterizes those readers? Who would be least likely to read Barbara Kingsolver, and why? What objections could readers make to her work?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Evaluate your own reading of "High Tide in Tucson"--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
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