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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. The _____________, according to Don Juan, is exhilarating to those who are able to experience it.
(a) Truth.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Known.
(d) Power.

2. Where does the narrator find himself during his new state of awareness, wanting to join the others there?
(a) Church.
(b) Airplane.
(c) School.
(d) Bank.

3. What is the indescribable force which is the source of all sentient beings, according to the teachings of Don Juan?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Hawk.
(c) Mother.
(d) Dirt.

4. What does Don Juan do in order to push Carlos into a heightened state of awareness in the beginning of the story?
(a) Slap him on the back.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Sing.
(d) Whisper.

5. A blow from a nagual will create a sent in man's ____________, displacing the glow of awareness, according to Don Juan.
(a) Skin.
(b) Personality.
(c) Cocoon.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the __________ appears to all seers, not all of the seers will see this figure in the same manner.

2. ___________ beings are not the only creatures that possess life, according to the lessons of Don Juan.

3. Warriors are preparing for ______________, and not death, according to Don Juan when Carlos asks him that question.

4. Carlos is extremely fatigued because Don Genaro pushed him into the ___________ and the narrator doesn't have enough energy for that.

5. What happened when Don Juan was working with his mirror? What did the ally do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Don Juan want to use the mirror for in the exercise with Carlos down by the river?

2. What does Don Juan reveal about the Toltecs and how some of them lost their knowledge?

3. Why is the unknowable draining for new seers who have come to the path of being a student?

4. What does the assemblage point select for alignment, as taught by Don Juan in a state of heightened awareness?

5. What are the two types of seers which Don Juan describes to Carlos in their teachings together?

6. What does Carlos learn about the seer and the Eagle's emanations right before he falls asleep?

7. Why was Don Juan sent to the boss' house when he is working at a sugar mill as a young man?

8. What needs to happen if Carlos is to perceive an ally with his teachers and in his lessons?

9. What is Carlos told to do when he asks for an example of what an ancient Toltec practice might be?

10. Don Juan explains that there are two sides of awareness in the world. What are the two sides of awareness?

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