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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the unique creation of civilizations?
(a) Sit-coms.
(b) Tragedies.
(c) Comedies.
(d) Talk shows.

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

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

4. On what has Backster not experimented?
(a) Bacteria.
(b) Yogurt.
(c) Cats.
(d) Plants.

5. What does Jensen say underlies the different forms of coercion?
(a) Money.
(b) Production.
(c) Love.
(d) Silence.

6. Why do bears attack bee colonies?
(a) For beeswax.
(b) For adult bees.
(c) For honey.
(d) For baby bees.

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

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

9. What has Jensen begun doing with his bee equipment?
(a) Selling it.
(b) Putting it in the trash.
(c) Giving it away.
(d) Burning it.

10. From whom did Jensen borrow the money for his bees?
(a) The bank.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His brother.

11. When did Jensen's bees first die?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1985.

12. For what experience does Jensen learn he has been having flashbacks to and not realizing it?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Skating.
(c) Eating dinner.
(d) Waterskiing.

13. What system to manage wealth will allow a society to be insecure?
(a) The open system.
(b) The funnel system.
(c) The closed system.
(d) The siphon system.

14. How long was Briar Rose to sleep?
(a) One year.
(b) Forever.
(c) Ten years.
(d) One hundred years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Jack Forbes say that those who would destroy suffer?

2. What is not one of the things that Jensen did to help the bees accept him?

3. To what phrase has Erich Fromm changed Descartes' famous saying "I think, therefore I am?"

4. In the parable of the box, who does the man on the box represent?

5. What do the oldest bees do?

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