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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did don Juan beat Carlos to?
(a) His feelings of a lack of self worth.
(b) His question regarding controlled folly.
(c) Descriptions of the clouds.
(d) None of these.

2. What were the people that Carlos had encountered when he had abandoned don Vincente's gift?
(a) Guardians of the gift that Carlos was supposed to harness.
(b) Allies of a man of knowledge.
(c) Spirits.
(d) Ghosts.

3. What could a master sorcerer do?
(a) Make himself into a bird.
(b) Become a pigeon.
(c) Make himself into an eagle.
(d) None of these.

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

5. What did Carlos always find difficult after he had finished with the little smoke?
(a) Talking.
(b) Walking.
(c) Driving.
(d) Chores.

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

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

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

9. What are the Yoris?
(a) The capitalists.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The tourists.
(d) The Mexicans.

10. An evil sorcerer would become what bird?
(a) A robin.
(b) A seagull.
(c) An owl.
(d) A hawk.

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

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

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

14. Where did the men agree the tequila was made?
(a) The Pico de Orizaba.
(b) The lowlands of the Lake Chapala.
(c) The high mountains of Chihuahua.
(d) The low lands of the Guadalajara.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years was don Juan away from his apprenticeship?

2. Why does Carlos think he is better off than the shoeshine boys?

3. What surprised Carlos in regard to don Genaro?

4. What disturbed Carlos?

5. What did don Juan and Carlos eat?

(see the answer keys)

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