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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. How much honey do Jensen's bees produce their first year?

2. What do younger bees in a hive do?

3. How does Jensen describe his beginnings in the bee business?

4. With what items does Backster get the most response from the plants?

5. What is the unique creation of civilizations?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jensen say is the real lesson of Jesus?

3. What are two problems that Jensen identifies with violence?

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

5. Why did Jensen's bees die?

6. What does Jensen's friend Dave think about his life?

7. What are two problems that Jensen identifies with violence?

8. How does food exemplify the difficulty of withdrawing oneself from the current economy?

9. What does Jensen say that it takes in order for one to get to know oneself?

10. Under what circumstances did the plants become attuned to the brine shrimp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role do Jensen's school years play in his development?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the idea that there is no quick answer to the problems that affect the world. What is your opinion of Jensen's three reasons that he cannot suggest a quick fix to heal the world? Do you agree with his assessments? Why or why not?

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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