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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Jensen, what do humans do when they fear their needs won't be met?
(a) Become more determined.
(b) Become silent.
(c) Make demands.
(d) Get angry.

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

3. How did Jensen teach his creative writing class?
(a) Through the internet.
(b) In a linear fashion.
(c) In a nonlinear fashion.
(d) Through lectures only.

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

5. About what animal does Jensen dream?
(a) Cranes.
(b) Eyeglasses.
(c) Doves.
(d) Pelicans.

6. When does Jensen say that his conversation with the coyotes began?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1995.

7. How does Jensen feel when he realizes he can speak to animals and make them understand?
(a) Crazy.
(b) Special.
(c) Awed.
(d) Powerful.

8. What is it that Jensen believes shows the coyotes gratitude for the duck carcass?
(a) A pile of poop.
(b) A dead chicken.
(c) Dead wolves.
(d) A new tree.

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

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

11. What does Jensen say is the best thing that happened to him at the School of Mines?
(a) He began to fall apart.
(b) He met his wife.
(c) He got an education.
(d) He got away from his father.

12. What calls Jensen during the ice storm?
(a) The coyote tree.
(b) His chickens.
(c) The coyotes.
(d) The milkman.

13. What is the original meaning of the word economics?
(a) Study of stocks and bonds.
(b) Science of finance.
(c) Management of money.
(d) Science of household management.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is there room for in the world of economics?

2. What types of animals does Jensen raise?

3. In the chapter "Taking A Life" what animal always seems to be getting shafted?

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

5. How does Jensen indicate that our culture uses God?

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