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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. Jensen's cat jumps into his lap and then goes to the litter box to show ______________.

2. Jensen is trying to rekindle his love for what sport?

3. Why does Jensen believe his father continued to call him?

4. When was the last time Jensen saw his father?

5. With what does Jack Forbes say that those who would destroy suffer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Cleve Backster come to be experimenting on plants?

3. What does Jensen's friend Dave think about his life?

4. How do traumatized people act?

5. To what does Jensen say that an emphasis on production ultimately leads?

6. What does Jensen say is the real lesson of Jesus?

7. What does Jensen learn through his dream about the Dreamgiver?

8. What two options does Jensen offer for the time when civilization finally collapses?

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

10. Why does the Forest Service choose to give heart rot fungus to healthy trees?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Jensen's journey with Crohn's disease. How does it affect him physically? Emotionally?

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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