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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 Jensen do to try to keep the coyotes from eating his birds?

2. What does Jim Nollman do?

3. About what animal does Jensen dream?

4. Why does the mother in the social security office berate her daughter?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Researchers that experimented with baby monkeys determined who to be the best monsters?

3. What was Jensen's childhood like?

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

5. How does Jensen interpret his dreams of fishing?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the chapter "Insatiability" a Maori asks Jensen about his motivation for working for the indigenous people. What is your opinion of Jensen's motivations? Do you believe they are pure? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Consider the idea in the chapter entitled "Violence" that by not killing the goose earlier Jensen caused two deaths. How responsible do you feel that Jensen is for the death of the hen? Is he just as guilty as the goose? How does this idea translate into the idea of criminals set free to kill, rape or steal again? Are those who set him free just as guilty as the criminal?

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