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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 with the surveyors' flags?

2. With what is Lake Coeur d'Alene contaminated?

3. In the chapter "Taking A Life" what animal always seems to be getting shafted?

4. When does Jensen say that his conversation with the coyotes began?

5. Under what religious beliefs was Jensen raised?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jensen write that current culture presupposes?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe a conversation of death.

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

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

10. What is the coyote tree?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Consider the idea that there is no quick answer to the problems that affect the world. What is your opinion of Jensen's three reasons that he cannot suggest a quick fix to heal the world? Do you agree with his assessments? Why or why not?

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