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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Jensen say his economic books should be written?

2. What does Jensen do with the surveyors' flags?

3. What question does Jensen want answered while he is in school?

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

5. How does Jensen indicate that our culture uses God?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Jensen's father rationalize the fact that he beats the members of his family?

5. Why did the newspaper journalists believe that the Yanomame Indians were stupid?

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

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

8. What does Jensen list as some of the things that human being need?

9. How does Jensen come to be high jumping?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Jensen's journey with Crohn's disease. How does it affect him physically? Emotionally?

Essay Topic 2

In his chapter "Claims to Virtue," Jensen mentions that Jesus is a feminist of sorts. Search the Christian Bible for examples of Jesus' actions that may have lead Jensen to this conclusion. Describe what you find and explain if you agree or disagree with Jensen's belief.

Essay Topic 3

In several places in the novel, Jensen questions the idea of individual ownership. For instance, when Jensen cleans his barn he wonders if he owns the mice and can do with them as he wishes just because he owns the barn. What is your opinion of this idea of personal ownership? What can be owned and what cannot?

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