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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. Why does Jensen write that he cannot offer solutions to the problems that affect the world?
(a) He does offer a solution.
(b) The problem is unconsciously but intentionally structured to make solutions impossible.
(c) To propose discrete solutions trivializes those that have come before.
(d) An attempt to propose a solution presupposes that solutions exist.

2. What has Jensen been taking to the coyote tree in the chapter "Violence Revisited?"
(a) Spray paint.
(b) Bread.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Stakes.

3. Why does Jensen's friend, John Keeble, like to study hate groups?
(a) There aren't many of them.
(b) They are complex.
(c) They admit they are racists.
(d) They are illogical.

4. How many times did Jensen's father ask if he could attend Jensen's jump meet?
(a) Twice.
(b) Once.
(c) Three times.
(d) He never asked.

5. How does the construction going on near Jensen's home make him feel?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Pleased.
(c) Dispossessed.
(d) Depressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Jensen believe that his father played in his activism?

2. How long do bees live?

3. What system to manage wealth will allow a society to be insecure?

4. What is not a symptom of Crohn's?

5. Jensen is trying to rekindle his love for what sport?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Forest Service choose to give heart rot fungus to healthy trees?

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

3. How do traumatized people act?

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

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

6. To what does Jensen say that an emphasis on production ultimately leads?

7. How does Cleve Backster come to be experimenting on plants?

8. What does Jensen mean when he says that he "died" to Crohn's disease?

9. Why did Jensen's bees die?

10. How does Dr. Judith Herman describe atrocities?

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