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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. About what animal does Jensen dream?

2. Whom did the judge in the animal abuse case attack?

3. What does Jensen say is the best thing that happened to him at the School of Mines?

4. What type of pet did Jensen have as a child?

5. What is the essence of silencing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jensen take the two chicks to the coyote tree?

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

3. What is the coyote tree?

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

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

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

7. What does Jensen write that current culture presupposes?

8. How does Jensen interpret his dreams of fishing?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you agree with Jensen that money and the pursuit of money is the root of the problems with current society?

Essay Topic 2

In his research with plants, Cleve Backster discovers that plants are affected by certain stimuli. What, in your opinion, does the outcome of this research mean? Why is it significant? Why was it so important to Jensen that he be able to witness a response from a plant instead of just taking Backster's word that it had happened?

Essay Topic 3

Do you believe that a life is made more valuable by truly getting to know oneself? How do you think the world would work if everyone took the road that Jensen did? Are wage workers a necessity of modern society? Why or why not?

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