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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. With what items does Backster get the most response from the plants?

2. Why does Jensen look for ways to ruin Weyerhaeuser's business?

3. How much honey do Jensen's bees produce their first year?

4. What role does Jensen believe that his father played in his activism?

5. What does Jensen conclude that it is the responsibility of members of a community to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe the parable of the box.

2. What does Jensen say about intimacy?

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

4. What does Jensen mean when he says that he "died" to Crohn's disease?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do the cultural eyeglasses determine the way the people perceive the things that happen around them? What makes up or creates these cultural eyeglasses?

Essay Topic 3

If, as Jensen suggests that it might, human civilization finally causes the destruction of the world, what do you think the outcome will be? Do you agree with either of Jensen's conclusions as suggested in the final chapter of the novel or do you believe there is another option available?

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