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Derrick Jensen
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A Language Older Than Words Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Derrick Jensen
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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. Whom did the judge in the animal abuse case attack?
(a) The animal activists.
(b) The owners of the puppy mill.
(c) The police.
(d) The newspaper writers.

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

3. What is more important that listening?
(a) Believing.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Talking.
(d) Seeing.

4. By what means does Jensen not get the meat that he eats?
(a) Buying.
(b) Raising.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Hunting.

5. What does Jensen do with the surveyors' flags?
(a) Pulls them up.
(b) Moves them.
(c) Burns them.
(d) Plays with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter "Taking A Life" what animal always seems to be getting shafted?

2. What question does Jensen want answered while he is in school?

3. What type of tree did the aphids attack?

4. Under what religious beliefs was Jensen raised?

5. What does Jensen list as one of the weapons used against the aboriginal people?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does one of Jensen's scientific friends tell Jensen that would have to happen for her to believe that communication between species actually took place?

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

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

4. How does Jensen interpret his dreams of fishing?

5. What does Jensen list as some of the things that human being need?

6. How does Jensen come to be high jumping?

7. How does Jensen's father rationalize the fact that he beats the members of his family?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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