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Derrick Jensen
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A Language Older Than Words Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Derrick Jensen
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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. How many people speak out against violence in disciplining children on the radio talk show that Jensen listens to?
(a) One.
(b) All the callers.
(c) Ten.
(d) Two

2. What calls Jensen during the ice storm?
(a) The milkman.
(b) The coyotes.
(c) The coyote tree.
(d) His chickens.

3. What finally kills Jensen's aphids?
(a) Wasps.
(b) Ladybugs.
(c) Cold water.
(d) Insecticides.

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

5. In what does Jensen say his economic books should be written?
(a) Red ink.
(b) Sweat.
(c) Blue ink.
(d) Blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did the judge in the animal abuse case attack?

2. What type of tree is the coyote tree?

3. Who gave the Cheyenne leader a United States flag?

4. Nollman says that his ___________ seem to become listless when he goes away.

5. What activity does Jensen dream that he is doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 write that current culture presupposes?

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

5. What was Jensen's childhood like?

6. Researchers that experimented with baby monkeys determined who to be the best monsters?

7. What is significant about Jensen's dream about the cranes?

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

9. How do the Semai resolve their arguments?

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

(see the answer keys)

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