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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 makes writing rewarding for Barbara Kingsolver?

2. What does Barbara Kingsolver use less as she wrote her books?

3. When were the Titan Missiles outside of Tucson taken out of service?

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver and a friend ask to do at the mall?

5. What is Haleakala?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Barbara Kingsolver's visit to Ouidah.

4. What did Barbara Kingsolver and her daughter do at the Heard Museum?

5. Why was Kingsolver opposed to the Gulf War?

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

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

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

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

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 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?

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

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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