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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jensen wish about his childhood?
(a) It was worse.
(b) It never happened.
(c) He could forget it.
(d) It was different.

2. What does Jensen believe is the purpose of compulsory education?
(a) To break the will of the children.
(b) To waste time.
(c) To teach necessary education.
(d) To use taxpayers' money.

3. What does Jensen think about when he flies?
(a) Life.
(b) Birds.
(c) Death.
(d) Freedom.

4. Under what religious beliefs was Jensen raised?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Buddhist.

5. Why does Jensen enjoy his economics classes?
(a) He likes money.
(b) He doesn't enjoy them.
(c) He understands the concepts.
(d) He doesn't take them seriously.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who teaches Jensen's handball class?

2. How did Jensen teach his creative writing class?

3. What does Jim Nollman do?

4. Why does Jensen really go to graduate school?

5. What types of animals does Jensen raise?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role do the stars play in Jensen's life?

2. What activities do Jensen's students participate in during his creative writing class and what is the purpose of these activities?

3. What does Jensen's nine-year-old friend tell him about the bushes in his yard?

4. What is the original meaning of the word "economics?"

5. In what way is high jumping therapeutic for Jensen?

6. What dilemma does Jensen say that students face in school?

7. What does one of Jensen's scientific friends tell Jensen that would have to happen for her to believe that communication between species actually took place?

8. How do the Semai resolve their arguments?

9. How does Jensen interpret his dreams of fishing?

10. In what ways does Jensen write in the chapter "The Safety of Metaphor" that the salmon and humans are similar?

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