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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 percentage of those polled thought it was acceptable for police to use pepper spray on nonviolent, non-resisting protestors?
(a) 14 percent.
(b) 86 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 98 percent.

2. Jensen is trying to rekindle his love for what sport?
(a) High jumping.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Basketball.

3. What does Backster call his research?
(a) Human attunement research.
(b) Plant research.
(c) Bacteria research.
(d) Primary perception research.

4. What is the cause of Jensen's brother's epilepsy?
(a) Car wreck.
(b) Medicine overdose.
(c) Genetics.
(d) Blows to the head.

5. What is the third category of people that Fromm identifies?
(a) Good.
(b) Life-affirming.
(c) A nondestructive, aggressive society.
(d) Destructive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of insects does Jensen try his hand at raising?

2. What does Jensen say we cannot do with our anger?

3. Why do bears attack bee colonies?

4. What does Jensen say when he is passed the talking stick?

5. How long was Briar Rose to sleep?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Dr. Judith Herman describe atrocities?

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

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

5. How does food exemplify the difficulty of withdrawing oneself from the current economy?

6. Under what circumstances did the plants become attuned to the brine shrimp?

7. As a beekeeper, how did Jensen make money with his bees?

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

9. How does Cleve Backster come to be experimenting on plants?

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

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