A Language Older Than Words Test | Final Test - Medium

Derrick Jensen
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 110 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Language Older Than Words Test | Final 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. What does Jensen conclude that it is the responsibility of members of a community to do?
(a) Feed each other.
(b) Beat each other.
(c) Work with each other.
(d) Ignore each other.

2. What animal often kills bee colonies?
(a) Ants.
(b) Fish.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Cats.

3. What do the oldest bees do?
(a) Search for new sources of nectar.
(b) Tend the young.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Guard the hive.

4. While working with bees, where did Jensen live most of the time?
(a) At his home.
(b) In his truck.
(c) With his mom.
(d) With his friends.

5. What keeps Jensen from starting with bees again?
(a) Lack of equipment.
(b) Lack of money.
(c) Fear.
(d) His health.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does Jensen suggest that his restaurant meal did not come?

2. What does Jensen say leads to psychopathy?

3. When was the last time Jensen saw his father?

4. Which fairy tale does psychologist Rollo May use allegorically?

5. Why does Jensen write that he stopped wearing the traditional bee working safety equipment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two problems that Jensen identifies with violence?

2. Why does the Forest Service choose to give heart rot fungus to healthy trees?

3. How did Jensen learn not to place his beehives in an aesthetic manner?

4. What does Jensen say is the only honest statement that the editor of a certain paper ever told him?

5. How do traumatized people act?

6. What does Jensen say is the real lesson of Jesus?

7. How does Jensen critique his writing in the chapter "Coercion?"

8. What two options does Jensen offer for the time when civilization finally collapses?

9. What are two problems that Jensen identifies with violence?

10. What does Jensen learn through his dream about the Dreamgiver?

(see the answer keys)

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