A Language Older Than Words Test | Final Test - Easy

Derrick Jensen
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A Language Older Than Words Test | Final 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 do the oldest bees do?
(a) Search for new sources of nectar.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Guard the hive.
(d) Tend the young.

2. What does Jensen say that we create?
(a) What we value.
(b) What we need.
(c) What we desire.
(d) What we envy.

3. How does Jensen know it is the coyotes who are eating his offerings of bread?
(a) The bring him meat.
(b) There are no more deer left.
(c) He sees the animals.
(d) He sees their prints.

4. How does Jensen describe his beginnings in the bee business?
(a) Dishonest.
(b) Draining.
(c) Quick.
(d) Dreamlike.

5. Does Dr. Herman believe the perpetrators of atrocities believe their own lies?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) She has no idea.

6. Why does Jensen move to Spokane?
(a) To study writing.
(b) To live with his father.
(c) To retire.
(d) To get a job.

7. Why is Jensen leery of the talking stick?
(a) The person using it is not a traditional Indian.
(b) He is afraid he will be laughed at.
(c) He doesn't want to tell what he really feels.
(d) He is uncomfortable talking in public.

8. To what does Cleve Backster give polygraph tests?
(a) Plants.
(b) Trees.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

9. What does Jensen say that coercion is central to in our culture?
(a) Our religion.
(b) Our applied sciences.
(c) Our economics.
(d) Nothing.

10. Jensen is trying to rekindle his love for what sport?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Tennis.
(d) High jumping.

11. What keeps Jensen from starting with bees again?
(a) His health.
(b) Lack of money.
(c) Fear.
(d) Lack of equipment.

12. What tenet of Christianity does Jensen suggest people may wake one day to find is really true?
(a) There really is a heaven.
(b) There really is a devil.
(c) There really is karma.
(d) There really is a hell.

13. What does Jensen say when he is passed the talking stick?
(a) He tells the group members they are misusing the stick.
(b) He says if he had a chance to live his life again he would have killed his father.
(c) He refuses to talk with the stick.
(d) He tells the group he is a cannibal.

14. With what disease did the doctors in the hospital misdiagnose Jensen?
(a) The flu.
(b) Ulcerative colitis.
(c) Kidney failure.
(d) Stomach ulcers.

15. With what does Jack Forbes say that those who would destroy suffer?
(a) Sleeping sickness.
(b) Tetanus.
(c) Rabies.
(d) Cannibal sickness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the observatory built on Mount Graham?

2. What role does Jensen believe that his father played in his activism?

3. Why does Jensen write that he stopped wearing the traditional bee working safety equipment?

4. How long was Briar Rose to sleep?

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

(see the answer keys)

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