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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Carlos say it was impossible to do at all times?
(a) Be controlled.
(b) Get a new perspective.
(c) Be reverent.
(d) Be respectful.

2. What did Carlos use to light the pipe?
(a) A coal.
(b) Matches.
(c) A lighter.
(d) Twigs.

3. What did the holes and gaps in the sounds show Carlos?
(a) The location of his spirit catcher.
(b) None of these.
(c) The location of the water spirit.
(d) Where he should meet his ally.

4. What was in the field?
(a) A vulture.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A Mexican peasant farmer.

5. How many points are men capable of handling?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Eight.

6. What did don Juan say when Carlos had asked where don Genaro was?
(a) That Carlos indulged too much.
(b) That Carlos should give up trying to understand.
(c) That Carlos was uncomfortable.
(d) That Carlos knew where he was.

7. What is the problem with the insistence to rationalize and understand everything?
(a) It chains him to that world.
(b) That this is only one area from which men are capable of handling.
(c) There are some things that can be neither.
(d) None of these.

8. What does don Juan say Carlos has that are good?
(a) Claws.
(b) Fingernails.
(c) Talons.
(d) Patience.

9. What time of the day is a bad time for sorcerers?
(a) The evening.
(b) The afternoon.
(c) The morning.
(d) The night.

10. What was the hardest thing for Castaneda to stop doing?
(a) Listening to himself think.
(b) None of these.
(c) Talking to himself.
(d) Thinking too much.

11. What would don Juan do if someone was waiting with a gun and telescopic sight?
(a) He wouldn't come around.
(b) He would do nothing.
(c) He would use his will to divert their attention.
(d) He would conjure his allies to defend him.

12. What does don Juan find extremely amusing about Carlos?
(a) Carlos is afraid of his ally.
(b) The one time he is supposed to talk he has nothing to say.
(c) Carlos doesn't want to meet his ally.
(d) The first time don Juan has really wanted to talk with Carlos, and he is quiet.

13. What is Carlos chained to?
(a) His ally.
(b) His rationalizations.
(c) His notes.
(d) His reason.

14. What did don Juan see when he looked into Carlos?
(a) None of these.
(b) A little boy with a button nose that was crying.
(c) Carlos as a child crying.
(d) A little girl with a button nose that was crying,

15. What is always heralded by great pain?
(a) A fine power.
(b) Fine sight.
(c) A strong power.
(d) A strong will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a man who knows that his death is imminent have to fall back on?

2. What did Carlos have to do to protect don Juan?

3. Out of which eye did the dashes protrude?

4. What must Carlos be before meeting an ally?

5. What was the item that don Juan had told to put inside the witch?

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