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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 5 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a man look like when a person can actually 'see' him?
(a) All of these.
(b) Like a ball of light.
(c) Like a bundle of swirling color.
(d) Like a fibrous egg of light.

2. What is a unit of meaning?
(a) All of these.
(b) A single aspect of genuine understanding.
(c) A part of a whole idea that don Juan was attempting to communicate.
(d) All the single elements relating to the knowledge that don Juan was trying to teach him.

3. How did don Juan treat Carlos' experience at the mitote?
(a) As a good sign.
(b) As a good omen.
(c) All of these.
(d) As an omen he should take peyote again.

4. What animal did don Juan compare to Lucio?
(a) None of these.
(b) An amoeba.
(c) A worm.
(d) A jellyfish.

5. What did Mescalito allow Carlos to do?
(a) Understand what was happening to Eligio.
(b) Interpret Eligio's lesson.
(c) 'See' Eligio's lesson.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the definition of stranger?

2. Why can Carlos' view of the world not be final?

3. Why did the narrator lie to don Juan?

4. Why did Carlos condense his field notes?

5. What are the Yoris?

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