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

2. According to Jensen, on what belief is the entire culture based?
(a) People are blind.
(b) The earth is inanimate.
(c) The earth is alive.
(d) People are honest.

3. What activity does Jensen dream that he is doing?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Killing coyotes.
(d) Hunting.

4. What does Jensen say is the best thing that happened to him at the School of Mines?
(a) He got away from his father.
(b) He met his wife.
(c) He began to fall apart.
(d) He got an education.

5. According to Jensen, what do humans do when they fear their needs won't be met?
(a) Become more determined.
(b) Become silent.
(c) Get angry.
(d) Make demands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jim Nollman do?

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

3. What type of tree is the coyote tree?

4. Under what religious beliefs was Jensen raised?

5. Jensen says there is a language older than _______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Jensen tries to wall off the pain from his foot while jumping?

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

3. How do the Semai resolve their arguments?

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

5. What does Jensen wonder about the ladybug pupae feel?

6. What does Jensen write that current culture presupposes?

7. Why does Jensen say that he can provide no scientific verification for conversations between humans and nonhumans?

8. Describe a conversation of death.

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

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

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