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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. How does Jensen describe Crohn's disease?

2. What fruit requires a wasp to pollinate it?

3. To what does Cleve Backster give polygraph tests?

4. What does Backster call his research?

5. How long do bees live?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Dr. Judith Herman describe atrocities?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Jensen's relationship with his father. How did this relationship impact Jensen's life? How did it change when Jensen became and adult?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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