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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 do with the surveyors' flags?
(a) Plays with them.
(b) Burns them.
(c) Moves them.
(d) Pulls them up.

2. What does Jensen argue manifests the desires of our culture?
(a) Life.
(b) Human beings.
(c) Money.
(d) Happiness.

3. What types of books were Jensen's family members allowed to read on the Sabbath?
(a) The Bible or Bible commentaries only.
(b) Any type of books they wanted to read.
(c) Mysteries.
(d) Books about the Bible or nature.

4. How did Jensen teach his creative writing class?
(a) Through the internet.
(b) In a nonlinear fashion.
(c) Through lectures only.
(d) In a linear fashion.

5. What does Jensen say is the best thing that happened to him at the School of Mines?
(a) He met his wife.
(b) He got away from his father.
(c) He got an education.
(d) He began to fall apart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What device does Jensen say determines our view of surrounding circumstances?

2. What is it that Jensen believes shows the coyotes gratitude for the duck carcass?

3. What type of pet did Jensen have as a child?

4. In what subject did Jensen major in graduate school?

5. What is more important that listening?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe one of the ways in which Jensen says that humans justify their actions even if these actions are cruel or make no sense.

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

3. How does Jensen come to be high jumping?

4. What does Jensen wonder about the ladybug pupae feel?

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

6. What does Jensen say is one of the problems with our current economic system?

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

8. What was Jensen's childhood like?

9. Why does Jensen not believe that General Norman Schwarzkopf should be considered a hero?

10. Why does Jensen say that economics textbooks should be written in blood?

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