A Language Older Than Words Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Derrick Jensen
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A Language Older Than Words Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Derrick Jensen
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Maori word "whenua" mean?
(a) Planet.
(b) Earth.
(c) Soil.
(d) Ownership.

2. What does Jensen do with the surveyors' flags?
(a) Plays with them.
(b) Burns them.
(c) Moves them.
(d) Pulls them up.

3. Why does the mother in the social security office berate her daughter?
(a) She slapped an infant.
(b) She had an accident.
(c) She lost her shoes.
(d) She stole some money.

4. What characterizes the Semai people?
(a) They are violent.
(b) They believe in corporal punishment.
(c) They are considered fighters.
(d) They don't fight.

5. What does Jensen say that trees do when they are cut down?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Cry.
(c) Whimper.
(d) Scream.

6. What does the Dreamgiver show Jensen about the future?
(a) Joy.
(b) Light.
(c) Perfection.
(d) Blackness.

7. What does Jensen ask the coyotes not to do?
(a) Go to the coyote tree.
(b) Kill his kittens.
(c) Poop in his yard.
(d) Kill his chickens.

8. What does Jensen think about when he flies?
(a) Birds.
(b) Life.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Death.

9. Which Maori interrogates Jensen?
(a) Witi.
(b) Jeannette Armstrong.
(c) The poet.
(d) Bruce Stewart.

10. What did the Chipewyan Indian children do with the wolf pups?
(a) Ran from them.
(b) Killed them.
(c) Played with them.
(d) Fought with them.

11. Who introduced Jensen to the idea of silencing?
(a) His father.
(b) His brother.
(c) His teachers.
(d) His mother.

12. What does Jensen's nine-year-old friend notice that Jensen didn't?
(a) The ladybugs.
(b) The bees.
(c) The aphids.
(d) The purple berries on the bush.

13. What activity does Jensen dream that he is doing?
(a) Killing coyotes.
(b) Painting.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Hunting.

14. Why does Jensen not blow up the dams?
(a) He can't get to the dam.
(b) He is too frightened.
(c) He doesn't know how to.
(d) He has no dynamite.

15. How many people speak out against violence in disciplining children on the radio talk show that Jensen listens to?
(a) All the callers.
(b) Ten.
(c) Two
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jensen really go to graduate school?

2. What does Jensen do for a living?

3. What happens after the mice in the barn are killed?

4. According to Jensen, on what belief is the entire culture based?

5. What calls Jensen during the ice storm?

(see the answer keys)

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