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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Power Practices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One person who tried Harner's step-by-step guided journey exercise reported bringing back what by accident?
(a) A beneficial being.
(b) A monkey spirit guide.
(c) A healing code.
(d) A message for a friend.

2. In "The Way of the Shaman," the author shows similarities between:
(a) Real and fake shamans.
(b) Younger and older shamans.
(c) Once dominant spiritual belief systems.
(d) Various shamanic spiritual belief systems.

3. What is the name of the Jivaro shaman Harner works with?
(a) Machu.
(b) Pikachu.
(c) Arechu.
(d) Akachu.

4. It is typical for one or more spirits to help guide the shaman through what?
(a) The ninth dimension.
(b) A series of questions only the shaman hears.
(c) A time-honored ritual.
(d) A hidden or non-ordinary reality.

5. What does Harner point out about the Lakota Sioux and the Coast Salish tribes?
(a) They achieve altered states of consciousness without using hallucinogenic substances.
(b) Shun the practice of shamanism and instead pass down stories from one generation to the next.
(c) Are the best natural healers in the world.
(d) Were the first tribes known to practice shamanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Harner, what are "big dreams?"

2. What should a shaman NOT do when feeling dis-spirited?

3. Harner presents one shaman's drawings of the tunnel to Lowerworld. What does it look like?

4. A shaman's quartz crystals typically are hidden from what?

5. In the cultures Harner studies, shamans are primarily:

(see the answer key)

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