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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Bruce Stewart feel for his mother because of his school experience?

3. What does Bruce Stewart suggest as the way for the world to get better?

4. What is the essence of silencing?

5. What did Jensen do on the Sabbath?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Jensen say is one of the problems with our current economic system?

5. In what ways does Jensen write in the chapter "The Safety of Metaphor" that the salmon and humans are similar?

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

7. How do the Semai resolve their arguments?

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

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

10. What does Jensen write that current culture presupposes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the cultural eyeglasses determine the way the people perceive the things that happen around them? What makes up or creates these cultural eyeglasses?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Jensen's relationship with his father. How did this relationship impact Jensen's life? How did it change when Jensen became and adult?

Essay Topic 3

Do you believe that a life is made more valuable by truly getting to know oneself? How do you think the world would work if everyone took the road that Jensen did? Are wage workers a necessity of modern society? Why or why not?

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