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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. In what sport does Jensen participate?

2. What two things does Jensen indicate are often associated in modern culture?

3. What happens after the mice in the barn are killed?

4. Where do the Maori people live?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Jensen come to be high jumping?

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

8. What activities do Jensen's students participate in during his creative writing class and what is the purpose of these activities?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Jensen's journey with Crohn's disease. How does it affect him physically? Emotionally?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the idea that some cultures do not thrive on violence but instead discourage it. Why do these cultures disappear?

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