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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 does Jensen's mom suggest to kill his aphid infestation?
2. What is more important that listening?
3. For what reason were the Arawaks exterminated?
4. According to Jensen, what do humans do when they fear their needs won't be met?
5. Why does Jensen not blow up the dams?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Jensen come to be high jumping?
2. Why does Jensen say that economics textbooks should be written in blood?
3. What does one of Jensen's scientific friends tell Jensen that would have to happen for her to believe that communication between species actually took place?
4. How do the Semai resolve their arguments?
5. What is significant about Jensen's dream about the cranes?
6. In what way is high jumping therapeutic for Jensen?
7. What is the original meaning of the word "economics?"
8. Describe a conversation of death.
9. What dilemma does Jensen say that students face in school?
10. Describe one of the ways in which Jensen says that humans justify their actions even if these actions are cruel or make no sense.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How do the cultural eyeglasses determine the way the people perceive the things that happen around them? What makes up or creates these cultural eyeglasses?
Essay Topic 2
Consider the idea that there is no quick answer to the problems that affect the world. What is your opinion of Jensen's three reasons that he cannot suggest a quick fix to heal the world? Do you agree with his assessments? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
In several places in the novel, Jensen questions the idea of individual ownership. For instance, when Jensen cleans his barn he wonders if he owns the mice and can do with them as he wishes just because he owns the barn. What is your opinion of this idea of personal ownership? What can be owned and what cannot?
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