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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 is not a characteristic of a high-rape culture?

2. What group was not backing the fight to build an observatory on Mount Graham?

3. What do the oldest bees do?

4. What is not one of the things that Jensen did to help the bees accept him?

5. How are queen bees made?

Short Essay Questions

1. As a beekeeper, how did Jensen make money with his bees?

2. Briefly describe the parable of the box.

3. What does Jensen say about intimacy?

4. How does food exemplify the difficulty of withdrawing oneself from the current economy?

5. Why did Jensen's bees die?

6. How does Jensen critique his writing in the chapter "Coercion?"

7. What are two problems that Jensen identifies with violence?

8. How did Jensen learn not to place his beehives in an aesthetic manner?

9. What does Jensen say that it takes in order for one to get to know oneself?

10. What does Jensen say is the only honest statement that the editor of a certain paper ever told him?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Consider the idea that nature wants to "play" with us. Do you think this is possible? Why or why not? Can you describe a circumstance where you believe nature was playing with you?

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