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

2. What helps people who are traumatized move into their lives again?
(a) Bringing their attacker to justice.
(b) A survivor mission.
(c) Talking about their experience.
(d) Accepting the truth.

3. Why does Jensen look for ways to ruin Weyerhaeuser's business?
(a) Their trucks are ugly.
(b) They are responsible for deforestation.
(c) He doesn't like their product.
(d) They make him angry.

4. How are queen bees made?
(a) By voting.
(b) By playing games.
(c) Through bloodlines.
(d) By feeding babies special food.

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

6. What has Jensen been taking to the coyote tree in the chapter "Violence Revisited?"
(a) Spray paint.
(b) Bread.
(c) Stakes.
(d) Chickens.

7. What role does Jensen believe that his father played in his activism?
(a) Terminator.
(b) Activation energy.
(c) None.
(d) Catalyst.

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

9. What do the oldest bees do?
(a) Search for new sources of nectar.
(b) Guard the hive.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Tend the young.

10. What does Jensen say leads to psychopathy?
(a) Drug use.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Abuse.
(d) Brain injury.

11. How does Jensen describe his work as a bee keeper?
(a) Fulfilling.
(b) Satisfying.
(c) Hard.
(d) Easy.

12. What is the body temperature of a bee hive?
(a) Seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) Seventy-two degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) Ninety-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) Ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit.

13. What did Ruth Benedict identify as a differentiating factor for "bad" cultures?
(a) Reward of actions that emphasize personal gain.
(b) Presence of polygamy.
(c) Geography.
(d) Wealth.

14. What do younger bees in a hive do?
(a) Collect the nectar.
(b) Guard the hive.
(c) Tend the young.
(d) Play.

15. When did Jensen begin to teach?
(a) In 1989.
(b) In 1978.
(c) In 1995.
(d) In 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Jensen not go to the hospital with his Crohn's?

2. How long do bees live?

3. What types of people does Jensen say are not the gods of our society?

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

5. How much honey do Jensen's bees produce their first year?

(see the answer keys)

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