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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What brought both Carlos and don Juan back to their apprenticeships?
(a) The desire to learn how to manipulate the world around them.
(b) The desire to become all powerful.
(c) The knowledge that there was no other way to live life.
(d) The social desire to learn the ways of a man of knowledge.

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

3. How did Carlos look different?
(a) He looked like he had achieved something of great importance.
(b) He looked full of pride.
(c) He was getting fat and soft.
(d) None of these.

4. What surprised Carlos in regard to don Genaro?
(a) He was so agile.
(b) He never missed his footing.
(c) He was nimble.
(d) All of these.

5. What was it that made don Juan laugh?
(a) He did a funny dance.
(b) He was unable to eat his soup.
(c) Carlos was using a twig to get vegetables into his mouth.
(d) All of these.

6. Why originally did Carlos go back to don Juan?
(a) To reestablish his apprenticeship.
(b) To give him a copy of his book.
(c) None of these.
(d) To show him a copy of his book.

7. What did Carlos see?
(a) A vision of his family when he was young.
(b) An intense vision of his mother.
(c) A vision of him as a little boy.
(d) All of these.

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

9. What does don Juan point out to Carlos?
(a) That his view of the boys is one sided.
(b) That his view of the children is shallow.
(c) That his perception is out of tune.
(d) That his world of opportunities and freedom cannot make him a man of knowledge.

10. Why did the narrator lie to don Juan?
(a) None of these.
(b) He was a boastful man.
(c) He was a compulsive liar.
(d) He thought the man would want to talk to him if he went into detail of his interest in plants.

11. How many times did Carlos have to call don Juan for him to come?
(a) He never left.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

12. What did Mescalito teach?
(a) The right way to behave.
(b) The right way to act.
(c) The right way to look at things.
(d) The right way to live.

13. How does Saceteca see?
(a) He sings.
(b) He interprets his surroundings much like we do.
(c) He dances.
(d) He sees.

14. How could a skilled sorcerer bring about a specialized range of perception?
(a) Through the examination of the world around them from the eyes of the apprentice.
(b) Through the manipulation of social cues.
(c) Through the belief in the images presented to the apprentice.
(d) Through the adaptation to the apprentices visions.

15. What does an ally look like to a crow?
(a) A ball of light.
(b) A real person.
(c) An egg of light.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. How big did the guardian appear to be?

2. Why doesn't Carlos actually see?

3. Where did the men agree the tequila was made?

4. What, in Spanish, is an appellation of respect?

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

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