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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the purpose of the crouched position?
(a) To allow Carlos to remained hidden, but vigil.
(b) To make getting up quickly possible.
(c) None of these.
(d) To allow Carlos to take the woman by surprise.

2. When does the guardian become nothing?
(a) When Carlos ignores it.
(b) When Carlos feels nothing towards it.
(c) When Carlos no longer reacts to it.
(d) When Carlos admits to himself that the guardian has no control over him.

3. What sensation did Carlos have the day after he saw the man?
(a) Absentmindedness.
(b) Disillusionment.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Dejectedness.

4. What should scare Carlos, according to don Juan?
(a) The idea of living a mediocre life.
(b) The idea of never seeing.
(c) The idea of never finding the world.
(d) The idea of doing the same thing for the rest of his life.

5. What did Carlos use to light the pipe?
(a) A coal.
(b) Matches.
(c) A lighter.
(d) Twigs.

6. What was the hardest thing for Castaneda to stop doing?
(a) None of these.
(b) Listening to himself think.
(c) Thinking too much.
(d) Talking to himself.

7. When was Carlos the closest to seeing?
(a) When he had felt cold.
(b) When he noticed don Juan's voice as well as the tone from the string.
(c) When he saw the green fog of the water.
(d) When he felt the reverberations of the spirit catcher.

8. What were the branches for?
(a) Special protection.
(b) To keep Carlos warm.
(c) A weapon.
(d) To make him feel better.

9. What did the holes and gaps in the sounds show Carlos?
(a) Where he should meet his ally.
(b) None of these.
(c) The location of the water spirit.
(d) The location of his spirit catcher.

10. What is different in every man?
(a) Strength of light.
(b) Eyes.
(c) The way the glow moves.
(d) The way he shimmers.

11. What did the second appearance of the ally mean?
(a) A really good sign.
(b) That the ally and Carlos will get along famously.
(c) Reaffirmation that the ally wants him.
(d) None of these.

12. Where is Carlos going to get his best powers from?
(a) The hills and the mountains.
(b) The little smoke.
(c) The little smoke and the peyote.
(d) The water and the gullies.

13. What book did Carlos want to discuss?
(a) Cemeteries and Mortuaries of the World.
(b) The European Book of the Dead.
(c) The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
(d) The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

14. What is don Juan's trump card against the witch?
(a) Carlos himself.
(b) His little smoke.
(c) His allies.
(d) His warrior attitude.

15. When does an ally have substance?
(a) When they are approaching the sorcerer.
(b) When they are fleeing the sorcerer.
(c) When one struggles with them.
(d) When they chase the sorcerer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a man who knows that his death is imminent have to fall back on?

2. What did Carlos see when he had opened his eyes after focusing on the sound?

3. Out of which eye did the dashes protrude?

4. What kind of bird did she change into?

5. What direction did Carlos feel a change in?

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