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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 the body temperature of a bee hive?

2. Why is Jensen leery of the talking stick?

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

4. Where is it not possible to recover from an atrocity?

5. From where does Jensen suggest that his restaurant meal did not come?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was Jensen's experience with Crohn's disease?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the interaction between the Maori Witi and Jensen. What does Witi hope to learn from Jensen? What is he trying to find out?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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