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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 knowledge that there was no other way to live life.
(b) The desire to become all powerful.
(c) The desire to learn how to manipulate the world around them.
(d) The social desire to learn the ways of a man of knowledge.

2. What is a unit of meaning?
(a) A single aspect of genuine understanding.
(b) All of these.
(c) A part of a whole idea that don Juan was attempting to communicate.
(d) All the single elements relating to the knowledge that don Juan was trying to teach him.

3. What is the only thing that tempers the spirit?
(a) The idea of eternity.
(b) The idea of death.
(c) The idea of travel.
(d) The idea of love.

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

5. What is sorcery comparable to among the Indians?
(a) Perception.
(b) Altered states of reality.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Caucasian science.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many peyote buttons did Eligio chew?

2. What was responsible for Carlos' vision?

3. How did Saceteca stop Carlos?

4. What was don Juan's intention?

5. What does an ally look like to a crow?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is extremely impolite among the Yaquis?

4. How can everything in life be controlled folly?

5. What did Benigno and Lucio say in regards to don Juan?

6. Why did don Genaro repeat the sitting on his head feat so frequently?

7. What is the difference between the first and second time Carlos smoked?

8. What about Castaneda's behavior did don Genaro find amusing and why?

9. What is the difference between a stranger and a practitioner?

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

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