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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 indicate is the key to interspecies communication?
(a) Believing that it is possible.
(b) Learning the other species' language.
(c) Opening one's mind.
(d) Getting on their level.

2. Why does Jensen not blow up the dams?
(a) He can't get to the dam.
(b) He has no dynamite.
(c) He doesn't know how to.
(d) He is too frightened.

3. What does Jensen do to try to keep the coyotes from eating his birds?
(a) Buys a gun.
(b) Cages the birds.
(c) Builds a fence.
(d) Sets traps.

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

5. What causes Jensen's dog to die?
(a) Coyote.
(b) Poison.
(c) Old age.
(d) Stroke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is thought without experience?

2. What does Jensen believe is the purpose of compulsory education?

3. What did the Chipewyan Indian children do with the wolf pups?

4. By what means does Jensen not get the meat that he eats?

5. What robotic varmint did scientists at Tokyo University create?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Jensen say is one of the problems with our current economic system?

4. Why does Jensen believe that Jesus was a feminist of sorts?

5. Why did the newspaper journalists believe that the Yanomame Indians were stupid?

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

7. What dilemma does Jensen say that students face in school?

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

9. According to Jensen, what is the role of heroes?

10. What is significant about Jensen's dream about the cranes?

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