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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What device does Jensen say determines our view of surrounding circumstances?
(a) Cultural press.
(b) Cultural binoculars.
(c) Cultural blinders.
(d) Cultural eyeglasses.

2. 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 got away from his father.
(c) He met his wife.
(d) He got an education.

3. What types of books were Jensen's family members allowed to read on the Sabbath?
(a) Mysteries.
(b) Any type of books they wanted to read.
(c) The Bible or Bible commentaries only.
(d) Books about the Bible or nature.

4. According to Jensen, on what belief is the entire culture based?
(a) People are honest.
(b) The earth is alive.
(c) People are blind.
(d) The earth is inanimate.

5. In the chapter "Taking A Life" what animal always seems to be getting shafted?
(a) The chickens.
(b) The coyotes.
(c) The dogs.
(d) The kittens.

6. Nollman says that his ___________ seem to become listless when he goes away.
(a) Plants.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Cats.
(d) Family.

7. What does Jensen do to try to keep the coyotes from eating his birds?
(a) Sets traps.
(b) Buys a gun.
(c) Builds a fence.
(d) Cages the birds.

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

9. What do the geese do after the Gaddys' deaths?
(a) Keep watch over the graves.
(b) Continue to visit the refuge.
(c) Stay at the refuge year round.
(d) Stop going to the refuge.

10. What happens after the mice in the barn are killed?
(a) Jensen finds bees in his house.
(b) Jensen finds mice droppings on his porch.
(c) Jensen finds mice droppings in his bathroom.
(d) Jensen finds mice in his house.

11. What robotic varmint did scientists at Tokyo University create?
(a) Robo-Roach.
(b) Robo-Rat.
(c) Robo-Rabbit.
(d) Robo-Mouse.

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

13. What is the main lesson Jensen says he learns in graduate school?
(a) The primacy of process.
(b) The goal of economics.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His love of jumping.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Jensen, what does strange things to a person's mind?

2. At what university did Jensen teach a creative writing class?

3. About what animal does Jensen dream?

4. What types of people have hurt women the most?

5. Jensen says there is a language older than _______________.

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