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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 16 - 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Carlos going to get his best powers from?
(a) The little smoke.
(b) The little smoke and the peyote.
(c) The hills and the mountains.
(d) The water and the gullies.

2. What color was the guardian originally?
(a) Bright yellow with black hair.
(b) Bright red.
(c) Brilliantly black.
(d) Brilliantly white.

3. Why was Carlos' friend lonely?
(a) He believed in his beliefs and rationalism, instead of in the world around him.
(b) None of these.
(c) He never raised a family.
(d) He died without 'seeing'.

4. Why does Carlos think he is better off than the shoeshine boys?
(a) Carlos feels his world is more intellectually open to him.
(b) Carlos feels that their entire existence is taken up in the pursuit of food.
(c) Carlos feels that knowledge cannot be acquired by their lifestyle.
(d) Carlos feels that he lives better.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Spanish word of Brujo translate to?

2. What did don Juan do at the time of his son's death?

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

4. What was in the field?

5. What did Mescalito teach?

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