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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was always a touchy subject for Carlos?
(a) The idea of a child undergoing pain.
(b) The idea of a child being beaten.
(c) The idea that many people had a childhood worse than he.
(d) The knowledge that some children were poorly treated.

2. What is don Juan's spirit catcher?
(a) A wildebeest.
(b) A goat.
(c) A serpent.
(d) A wild boar.

3. Define sorcery.
(a) "Sorcery is to apply one's will to a key joint."
(b) None of these.
(c) "Sorcery is to gain confidence in one's death."
(d) "Sorcery is to heal the self and others."

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

5. What did Carlos say it was impossible to do at all times?
(a) Get a new perspective.
(b) Be controlled.
(c) Be reverent.
(d) Be respectful.

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

7. What does a warrior do when he encounters an ally, according to don Genaro?
(a) Runs away.
(b) Curls up into a little ball.
(c) Screams like a little girl.
(d) Wets his pants.

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

9. What did Carlos have to do to protect don Juan?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Destroy a blackbird.
(c) None of these.
(d) Take aim at the sorceress.

10. What was the name of the sorceress that had attacked don Juan?
(a) La Calina.
(b) La Catalina.
(c) La Caliente.
(d) La Corralina.

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

12. What was Carlos' irrational fear based on?
(a) The paranoia that the woman was hunting him.
(b) The focus on which he had to exert.
(c) The fear that he was being watched.
(d) The pressure of the need to perform.

13. What did don Juan attempt to get Carlos to do this time he was under the influence of the little smoke?
(a) Stand.
(b) See the guardian.
(c) Walk.
(d) Talk.

14. What does don Juan believe is the thing that is holding Carlos back from 'seeing'?
(a) A promise he made long ago.
(b) His college training and constant writing.
(c) An oath he made in college.
(d) An oath he swore to his grandfather.

15. What does don Juan say Carlos has that are good?
(a) Talons.
(b) Fingernails.
(c) Claws.
(d) Patience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the purpose of the crouched position?

2. What did the second appearance of the ally mean?

3. What promise did don Juan make to his father?

4. What is Carlos' problem?

5. What time of the day is a bad time for sorcerers?

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