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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jensen list as one of the weapons used against the aboriginal people?
(a) Bow and arrow.
(b) The press.
(c) The penis.
(d) Guns.

2. For what reason were the Arawaks exterminated?
(a) They were unwilling to reproduce.
(b) They were kind.
(c) They were sick.
(d) They were cruel.

3. In what subject did Jensen major in graduate school?
(a) Economics.
(b) Biology.
(c) Science.
(d) Literature.

4. What did Jensen do on the Sabbath?
(a) Communed with nature.
(b) Read the Bible.
(c) Communed with God.
(d) Watched the clock.

5. What does Jensen ultimately believe will happen to the world because of the way humans treat it?
(a) It will be destroyed.
(b) It will implode.
(c) It will be saved.
(d) It will explode.

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity does Jensen dream that he is doing?

2. Which Maori interrogates Jensen?

3. What characterizes the Semai people?

4. About what animal does Jensen dream?

5. What device does Jensen say determines our view of surrounding circumstances?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jensen take the two chicks to the coyote tree?

2. In what way is high jumping therapeutic for Jensen?

3. What is the coyote tree?

4. In what ways does Jensen write in the chapter "The Safety of Metaphor" that the salmon and humans are similar?

5. How does Jensen interpret his dreams of fishing?

6. What does Jensen write that current culture presupposes?

7. What activities do Jensen's students participate in during his creative writing class and what is the purpose of these activities?

8. Researchers that experimented with baby monkeys determined who to be the best monsters?

9. According to Jensen, what is the purpose of silencing?

10. Why does Jensen say that economics textbooks should be written in blood?

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