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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 say is the point of life?

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

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

4. Who gave the Cheyenne leader a United States flag?

5. What does Jensen argue manifests the desires of our culture?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jensen interpret his dreams of fishing?

3. What is the coyote tree?

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

5. What is the original meaning of the word "economics?"

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

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

8. How does Jensen's father rationalize the fact that he beats the members of his family?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Consider the idea of the connectivity between progress (i.e. hot showers, automobiles, computers) and the destruction of the world. What do you believe it would take for us to stop harming the world by the way we are living? Is there any way for us to become at one with nature again? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

What role do Jensen's school years play in his development?

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