2. What did Lucio's friends think that Carlos was?
(a) A tequila salesman.
(b) An American spy.
(c) All of these.
(d) A crazy man, as he had consumed peyote.

3. Why couldn't Lucio take peyote for a motorcycle?
(a) Mescalito would hurt him.
(b) None of these.
(c) Mescalito would reject him.
(d) Mescalito would kill him under such conditions.

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

5. Why doesn't Carlos actually see?
(a) Both of these.
(b) He only looks at the surface of things.
(c) He only looks at the outside layer of things.
(d) Neither of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mescalito teach?

2. What does a man look like when a person can actually 'see' him?

3. What was Carlos' duty at the mitote?

4. How did Carlos look different?

5. What were the people that Carlos had encountered when he had abandoned don Vincente's gift?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was don Juan's explanation for the lights behind them?

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

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

6. Why didn't Carlos 'see' the people that were around when he had left the plants?

7. What was don Juan's task as a practitioner?

8. What is extremely impolite among the Yaquis?

9. What is the difference between seeing and looking?

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

(see the answer keys)

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