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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. How does the construction going on near Jensen's home make him feel?

2. How long does it take a person to die of starvation?

3. For what experience does Jensen learn he has been having flashbacks to and not realizing it?

4. What is not a characteristic of a high-rape culture?

5. What system to manage wealth will allow a society to be insecure?

Short Essay Questions

1. As a beekeeper, how did Jensen make money with his bees?

2. How does Dr. Judith Herman describe atrocities?

3. How does Cleve Backster come to be experimenting on plants?

4. What two options does Jensen offer for the time when civilization finally collapses?

5. Briefly describe the parable of the box.

6. Why does the Forest Service choose to give heart rot fungus to healthy trees?

7. What does Jensen say is the real lesson of Jesus?

8. How does food exemplify the difficulty of withdrawing oneself from the current economy?

9. What was Jensen's experience with Crohn's disease?

10. How did Jensen learn not to place his beehives in an aesthetic manner?

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

Describe Jensen's experiences with bee keeping. How did the loss of his bees the first time affect him?

Essay Topic 3

Do you believe that a life is made more valuable by truly getting to know oneself? How do you think the world would work if everyone took the road that Jensen did? Are wage workers a necessity of modern society? Why or why not?

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