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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. What does the book Demonic Males say about rape?

2. Who teaches Jensen's handball class?

3. What is killed when Jensen cleans his barn?

4. From what Indian tribe is Jeannette Armstrong?

5. What does Jensen say is the point of life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Jensen, what is the role of heroes?

3. What does one of Jensen's scientific friends tell Jensen that would have to happen for her to believe that communication between species actually took place?

4. How do the Semai resolve their arguments?

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

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

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

8. How does Jensen come to be high jumping?

9. Why does Jensen say that economics textbooks should be written in blood?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In several places in the novel, Jensen questions the idea of individual ownership. For instance, when Jensen cleans his barn he wonders if he owns the mice and can do with them as he wishes just because he owns the barn. What is your opinion of this idea of personal ownership? What can be owned and what cannot?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

In his chapter "Claims to Virtue," Jensen mentions that Jesus is a feminist of sorts. Search the Christian Bible for examples of Jesus' actions that may have lead Jensen to this conclusion. Describe what you find and explain if you agree or disagree with Jensen's belief.

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