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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must one feel everything?
(a) If everything is maintained, the world makes sense.
(b) If everything is felt, the world becomes insane.
(c) If everything isn't felt, the world loses sense.
(d) If everything is felt, then the world becomes nonsense.

2. What had Carlos obsessed about?
(a) 'Seeing'.
(b) Gaining an ally.
(c) He was not obsessed.
(d) Meeting Mescalito.

3. What did Lucio's friends think that Carlos was?
(a) All of these.
(b) A tequila salesman.
(c) A crazy man, as he had consumed peyote.
(d) An American spy.

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

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

6. What did the guardian warn Carlos not to do?
(a) Attempt to pass it.
(b) Attempt to devalue it.
(c) Attempt to 'see' it any further.
(d) None of these.

7. What color was the light that emanated from the men?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Pink.
(c) Gold.
(d) White.

8. How does the smoke aid the apprentice in dealing with the guardian?
(a) It calms the apprentice.
(b) It helps in aiding to 'see' it.
(c) None of these.
(d) It speeds you up/slows it down.

9. What was the one thing that Genaro did just for Carlos?
(a) Shoot out a beam of light.
(b) Wrap tentacles around boulders.
(c) The whole display.
(d) None of these.

10. Why can Carlos' view of the world not be final?
(a) There is only one perspective, and it is impossible to accurately assess.
(b) There are many interpretations of the world from different perspectives.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

11. Why couldn't Lucio take peyote for a motorcycle?
(a) None of these.
(b) Mescalito would reject him.
(c) Mescalito would hurt him.
(d) Mescalito would kill him under such conditions.

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

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

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

15. 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 belief in the images presented to the apprentice.
(c) Through the adaptation to the apprentices visions.
(d) Through the manipulation of social cues.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Carlos condense his field notes?

3. Why did the narrator lie to don Juan?

4. What place was it safe for the color to have appeared on the guardian?

5. What do real people look like when you 'see' them?

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