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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 milkman.
(b) The coyote tree.
(c) His chickens.
(d) The coyotes.

2. Which Maori interrogates Jensen?
(a) Witi.
(b) Bruce Stewart.
(c) Jeannette Armstrong.
(d) The poet.

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

4. What happens after the mice in the barn are killed?
(a) Jensen finds bees in his house.
(b) Jensen finds mice in his house.
(c) Jensen finds mice droppings on his porch.
(d) Jensen finds mice droppings in his bathroom.

5. What does the homeless man who sees Jensen digging in the trash offer him?
(a) The address to a shelter.
(b) Money for food.
(c) Part of his dinner.
(d) A place to stay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Jensen's father not beat?

2. What is the main lesson Jensen says he learns in graduate school?

3. What is there room for in the world of economics?

4. How does Jensen feel when he realizes he can speak to animals and make them understand?

5. According to Jensen, on what belief is the entire culture based?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Jensen not believe that General Norman Schwarzkopf should be considered a hero?

5. How do the Semai resolve their arguments?

6. What does Jensen's nine-year-old friend tell him about the bushes in his yard?

7. Why does Jensen want to blow up a dam?

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

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

10. What was Jensen's childhood like?

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