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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Extracting Harmful Intrusions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harner indicates that a tonal animal is linked to someone's fate in what?
(a) Ordinary reality.
(b) Pre-adolescent years.
(c) Dream states.
(d) Shamanic states of consciousness.

2. After a novice receives an answer from a guardian spirit animal, what does Harner recommend he or she do?
(a) Write down the answer as soon as possible.
(b) Test the spirit to make sure the answer is correct.
(c) Move on to the next question.
(d) Spend fifteen minutes meditating on the answer's meaning.

3. What do anthropologists refer to as divination?
(a) Information a shaman shares immediately after emerging from the Lowerworld tunnel.
(b) A patient's spontaneous healing after a shaman's visit.
(c) Consultation between a shaman and his or her animal.
(d) The act of shaking a shamanic rattle in six directions.

4. Included in the reports from participants of Harner's first guided shamanic exercise are:
(a) Numerous cases of people experiencing nausea and vertigo.
(b) Accounts of disappearing momentarily and not being seen by others in the room.
(c) Suggestions on what to do when encountering an impenetrable obstacle.
(d) Detailed conversations with star people and other extraterrestrials.

5. In order for a shaman to restore power to someone from a distance, what does the author say is required?
(a) Expert skills and advanced confidence.
(b) Great concentration and expert sight.
(c) Advanced intuition and much courage.
(d) Great expectations and focused desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. When drugs are involved in Shaman practices, who takes them?

2. During the exercise for restoring power presented to the reader, what happens when the participant emerges from the tunnel into Lowerworld?

3. What is the name of the Jivaro shaman Harner works with?

4. At the conclusion of the rock-seeing process, after the shaman turns the stones around and examines all sides, what does the shaman do?

5. Shamans pass through what kind of planes?

(see the answer key)

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