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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. Who teaches Jensen's handball class?
(a) Track coach.
(b) His principal.
(c) His father.
(d) Philosophy teacher.

2. About what animal does Jensen dream?
(a) Eyeglasses.
(b) Cranes.
(c) Doves.
(d) Pelicans.

3. How did Jensen teach his creative writing class?
(a) Through lectures only.
(b) In a nonlinear fashion.
(c) Through the internet.
(d) In a linear fashion.

4. What is the essence of silencing?
(a) The loss of language.
(b) The misuse of language.
(c) The inability to remember.
(d) The willingness to forget.

5. What calls Jensen during the ice storm?
(a) The coyotes.
(b) His chickens.
(c) The coyote tree.
(d) The milkman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the book Demonic Males say about rape?

2. What does Jensen say is the point of life?

3. How does Jensen say a person should define themselves?

4. What did Bruce Stewart feel for his mother because of his school experience?

5. Who introduced Jensen to the idea of silencing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the coyote tree?

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

3. What does Jensen write that current culture presupposes?

4. How does Jensen interpret his dreams of fishing?

5. Describe a conversation of death.

6. How does Jensen come to be high jumping?

7. Describe one of the ways in which Jensen says that humans justify their actions even if these actions are cruel or make no sense.

8. What role do the stars play in Jensen's life?

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

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

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