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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, in Spanish, is an appellation of respect?
(a) Don.
(b) Sir.
(c) Juan.
(d) Senior.

2. What color of yellow was the sky?
(a) Pale yellow.
(b) Sulfurous.
(c) Fluorescent yellow.
(d) Canary.

3. Why doesn't Carlos actually see?
(a) Both of these.
(b) He only looks at the surface of things.
(c) He only looks at the outside layer of things.
(d) Neither of these.

4. What is a unit of meaning?
(a) A single aspect of genuine understanding.
(b) All of these.
(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.

5. What is wrong with Carlos, and what is the problem?
(a) He is too fat.
(b) He has gotten soft.
(c) He has been away too long.
(d) He has lost too much weight.

6. When was Carlos closest to 'seeing'?
(a) When Carlos saw him at the waterfall.
(b) When he had tested his strength at the waterfall.
(c) When don Genaro sat on his head.
(d) All of these.

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

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

9. Who was not an apprentice of Genaro's?
(a) I don't know.
(b) Nestor.
(c) Pablito.
(d) Don Juan.

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

11. What had Carlos decided to do?
(a) Argue about seeing.
(b) None of these.
(c) Smoke the mixture.
(d) Return to his apprenticeship.

12. Why did Carlos condense his field notes?
(a) To create fluidity in conversation.
(b) To make the lessons intelligible.
(c) To create a sense of time passing.
(d) To create a proper plot line.

13. Why did don Elias stop talking with Carlos?
(a) He didn't trust Carlos' motives.
(b) He didn't like what Carlos had to say.
(c) He didn't appreciate that Carlos had left Juan.
(d) He didn't want to teach Carlos.

14. How many peyote buttons did Eligio chew?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

15. What animal is the guardian?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A fly.
(c) A bee.
(d) A gnat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How big did the guardian appear to be?

2. What brought both Carlos and don Juan back to their apprenticeships?

3. What was the one thing that Genaro did just for Carlos?

4. What was the definition of stranger?

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

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