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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. What does Jensen say that trees do when they are cut down?

2. What does Jensen list as one of the weapons used against the aboriginal people?

3. What finally kills Jensen's aphids?

4. At what university did Jensen teach a creative writing class?

5. According to Jensen, what was the reason for him and his classmates to endure their time in school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. According to Jensen, what is the purpose of silencing?

4. What does Jensen write that current culture presupposes?

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

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

7. What does one of Jensen's scientific friends tell Jensen that would have to happen for her to believe that communication between species actually took place?

8. According to Jensen, what is the role of heroes?

9. How do the Semai resolve their arguments?

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

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

How do the cultural eyeglasses determine the way the people perceive the things that happen around them? What makes up or creates these cultural eyeglasses?

Essay Topic 3

Do you agree with Jensen that money and the pursuit of money is the root of the problems with current society?

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