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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does don Juan not hate anyone?
(a) He has learned to forgive his aggressors.
(b) He has learned that all paths in life are equal.
(c) He learned that neither Mexican nor indian is better than the other.
(d) He has become a warrior.

2. What was Carlos' complaint regarding living life like a warrior?
(a) That it was impossible to let go of the mind to that extent.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) This would take a lifetime.

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

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

5. What promise did don Juan make to his father?
(a) He would kill his assassins.
(b) None of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) He would destroy those who had hurt his family.

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

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

8. What was don Juan doing with the string?
(a) Scaring Carlos.
(b) None of these.
(c) Catching the spirit of the watering hole.
(d) Summoning the rain.

9. What did don Juan tell Carlos to sit in?
(a) A chair.
(b) A tree.
(c) None of these.
(d) A water hole.

10. When did Carlos lose sight of don Genaro on the mountain?
(a) When don Genaro disappeared.
(b) When he realized that he couldn't see a man that far away.
(c) When don Genaro tapped him on the shoulder.
(d) When he rationalized his mind out of the sight.

11. What animal type did don Juan choose?
(a) A crow.
(b) A vulture.
(c) A sparrow.
(d) A hawk.

12. What direction did Carlos feel a change in?
(a) The North.
(b) The South.
(c) The West.
(d) The East.

13. What did don Juan tell Carlos to stop doing?
(a) Standing.
(b) Trying to see.
(c) Looking at him.
(d) Looking for the guardian.

14. What does don Juan explain that Carlos must do in order to achieve his next step?
(a) Harness the little smoke as an ally.
(b) Live like an indian.
(c) Live like a warrior.
(d) Overcome the guardian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is always heralded by great pain?

2. What did Carlos use to light the pipe?

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

4. What is Carlos looking for with his hands?

5. Why must a warrior become amicable with his own death?

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