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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 ask the coyotes not to do?

2. According to Jensen, what do humans do when they fear their needs won't be met?

3. What is the essence of silencing?

4. What finally kills Jensen's aphids?

5. At what university did Jensen teach a creative writing class?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do the Semai resolve their arguments?

5. How does Jensen come to be high jumping?

6. What does Jensen write that current culture presupposes?

7. What is significant about Jensen's dream about the cranes?

8. Describe one of the ways in which Jensen says that humans justify their actions even if these actions are cruel or make no sense.

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

10. Why does Jensen not believe that General Norman Schwarzkopf should be considered a hero?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

If, as Jensen suggests that it might, human civilization finally causes the destruction of the world, what do you think the outcome will be? Do you agree with either of Jensen's conclusions as suggested in the final chapter of the novel or do you believe there is another option available?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the interaction between the Maori Witi and Jensen. What does Witi hope to learn from Jensen? What is he trying to find out?

Essay Topic 3

Jensen refers in his chapter "Seeking a Third Way" to an incident when he spoke out against a woman who disciplined her child. Do you think that Jensen acted correctly? Should others do the same? Was the mother wrong? Why or why not?

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