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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 types of people does Jensen say are not the gods of our society?

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

3. How old was Jensen when he was diagnosed with Crohn's?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In the fairy tale Briar Rose, why does the king leave one of the Wise Women out of his feast?

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

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

7. In "Connection and Cooperation" how did the Indians punish the hunter who violated rules against over kill?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In several places in the novel, Jensen questions the idea of individual ownership. For instance, when Jensen cleans his barn he wonders if he owns the mice and can do with them as he wishes just because he owns the barn. What is your opinion of this idea of personal ownership? What can be owned and what cannot?

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