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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 device does Jensen say determines our view of surrounding circumstances?
(a) Cultural binoculars.
(b) Cultural blinders.
(c) Cultural eyeglasses.
(d) Cultural press.

2. What types of people have hurt women the most?
(a) Christians.
(b) Indigenous people.
(c) Other women.
(d) Indians.

3. With what is Lake Coeur d'Alene contaminated?
(a) Heavy metals.
(b) Pharmaceuticals.
(c) Plastic bottles.
(d) Oil.

4. Why does Jensen not blow up the dams?
(a) He can't get to the dam.
(b) He doesn't know how to.
(c) He has no dynamite.
(d) He is too frightened.

5. What does Jim Nollman do?
(a) Experiments with cats.
(b) Talks to dogs.
(c) Plays music with whales and dolphins.
(d) Writes books with lions and tigers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jensen say is the point of life?

2. What does Jensen indicate is the key to interspecies communication?

3. What is more important that listening?

4. What does the Maori word "whenua" mean?

5. What does Jensen do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jensen say that he can provide no scientific verification for conversations between humans and nonhumans?

2. What is the coyote tree?

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

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

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

6. Why does Jensen take the two chicks to the coyote tree?

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

8. What happens when Jensen tries to wall off the pain from his foot while jumping?

9. Why does Jensen believe that Jesus was a feminist of sorts?

10. How does Jensen interpret his dreams of fishing?

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