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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What brought both Carlos and don Juan back to their apprenticeships?
(a) The desire to learn how to manipulate the world around them.
(b) The desire to become all powerful.
(c) The social desire to learn the ways of a man of knowledge.
(d) The knowledge that there was no other way to live life.

2. How did Saceteca stop Carlos?
(a) By seeing.
(b) By dancing.
(c) By telling him he had nothing to teach him.
(d) With his will.

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

4. What was responsible for Carlos' vision?
(a) Lack of sleep.
(b) Mescalito.
(c) Peyote in the water.
(d) Dehydration.

5. Why does Carlos think he is better off than the shoeshine boys?
(a) Carlos feels that knowledge cannot be acquired by their lifestyle.
(b) Carlos feels that he lives better.
(c) Carlos feels that their entire existence is taken up in the pursuit of food.
(d) Carlos feels his world is more intellectually open to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did don Genaro take the group to?

2. What does the Spanish word of Brujo translate to?

3. What did don Juan do at the time of his son's death?

4. Why doesn't Carlos actually see?

5. What did Carlos fear when he came to Mexico?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does don Juan point out in regards to Carlos' view of the shoeshine boys?

2. What was the difference that appeared when don Juan and Carlos were talking about knowledge?

3. What could the guardian do if it got angry?

4. How can a person who only 'sees' never really be happy or attached to anything?

5. What was the only important thing, according to don Juan, about Carlos' experience?

6. Why does each chapter end on a dramatic note?

7. Why, according to don Juan, can a blind man not truly laugh?

8. What does don Juan say about Carlos' progress?

9. What is extremely impolite among the Yaquis?

10. What about don Juan's explanation had made Carlos feel uncomfortable?

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