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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the thing that gives Carlos the chills?
(a) Detachment from family.
(b) Detachment from life.
(c) Detachment from death.
(d) Detachment from everything.

2. What is considered a person's shield?
(a) The lifestyle that surrounds them.
(b) All of these.
(c) The things they busy themselves with.
(d) The things they do.

3. What disturbed Carlos?
(a) How he was being reprimanded.
(b) None of these.
(c) The way don Juan was angry with him.
(d) How he had made a mistake.

4. What is Carlos' main problem?
(a) He insists on rationalizing everything,
(b) He insists on putting everything in order, and sometimes things cannot be grouped.
(c) He insists on understanding everything, and somethings cannot be understood.
(d) He insists on explaining everything, and some things cannot be explained.

5. What happened when Carlos used his shield?
(a) His ally left him, never to return.
(b) It seemed as though the ally and the sounds were angry.
(c) His ally struck him.
(d) His ally tossed him aside.

6. What sense captured Castaneda's attention?
(a) Taste.
(b) Touch.
(c) Sound.
(d) Sight.

7. How are don Juan and Carlos different when referring to their childhoods?
(a) Carlos was a nicer boy than don Juan.
(b) Don Juan wasn't violent; Carlos was.
(c) All of these.
(d) Don Juan wasn't involved with being mean.

8. Where does death enter through you?
(a) Your belly.
(b) Your head.
(c) Your third eye.
(d) Your eyes.

9. What is incredible when one sees?
(a) None of these.
(b) Nothing is as it was before.
(c) Life changes dramatically for the person who 'sees'.
(d) Nothing is familiar.

10. What didn't Carlos understand about the ways to living like a warrior?
(a) The indifference regarding his own demise.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) The idea that a man perceives things differently when he sees.

11. What is Carlos looking for with his hands?
(a) The location of his spirit catcher.
(b) The direction he must head.
(c) Where they get warm.
(d) All of these.

12. What feeling didn't Carlos have after being in the irrigation canal?
(a) None of these.
(b) Alertness.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Well being.

13. How did Carlos feel when he couldn't get up?
(a) Impotent.
(b) Despair.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) All of these.

14. What is always heralded by great pain?
(a) A fine power.
(b) A strong power.
(c) Fine sight.
(d) A strong will.

15. What was the nature of don Juan's lesson?
(a) It was a serious test of Castaneda's faith in him.
(b) It was a trick.
(c) It was a serious test of his conviction to being a man of knowledge.
(d) It was entrapment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was don Juan doing with the string?

2. What did Carlos say it was impossible to do at all times?

3. What is the problem with the insistence to rationalize and understand everything?

4. What kind of bird did she change into?

5. What helped to replenish Carlos?

(see the answer keys)

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