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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two things does Jensen indicate are often associated in modern culture?
(a) Life and violence.
(b) Sex and life.
(c) Sex and death.
(d) Violence and sex.

2. What is more important that listening?
(a) Hearing.
(b) Seeing.
(c) Believing.
(d) Talking.

3. Under what religious beliefs was Jensen raised?
(a) Buddhist.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Catholic.

4. What does Jensen believe is the purpose of compulsory education?
(a) To waste time.
(b) To break the will of the children.
(c) To teach necessary education.
(d) To use taxpayers' money.

5. What is thought without experience?
(a) Scientific reasoning.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Nonsense.

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

7. Why does Jensen really go to graduate school?
(a) To keep from having to go to work.
(b) To learn economics.
(c) To continue high jumping.
(d) To further his education.

8. What does Jim Nollman do?
(a) Experiments with cats.
(b) Talks to dogs.
(c) Plays music with whales and dolphins.
(d) Writes books with lions and tigers.

9. To what does Jensen compare the urge to destroy?
(a) Human nature.
(b) Poisoned meat.
(c) Poisoned water.
(d) Modern culture.

10. What finally kills Jensen's aphids?
(a) Insecticides.
(b) Ladybugs.
(c) Cold water.
(d) Wasps.

11. According to Jensen, what does strange things to a person's mind?
(a) Isolation.
(b) Thirst.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Abuse.

12. For what sports class did Jensen sign up in school?
(a) Football.
(b) High jumping.
(c) Handball.
(d) Track.

13. From what Indian tribe is Jeannette Armstrong?
(a) Aztec.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) Okanagan.
(d) Cheyenne.

14. What is killed when Jensen cleans his barn?
(a) Mice.
(b) Bees.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Dogs.

15. At what university did Jensen teach a creative writing class?
(a) University of California.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Mines College.
(d) East Washington University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jensen do with the surveyors' flags?

2. What do the geese do after the Gaddys' deaths?

3. Whom did Jensen's father not beat?

4. What does Jensen say is the best thing that happened to him at the School of Mines?

5. How did William Doherty die?

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