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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 helped to replenish Carlos?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) The washing in the river.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Don Juan's laughter.

2. What is Carlos' main problem?
(a) He insists on understanding everything, and somethings cannot be understood.
(b) He insists on putting everything in order, and sometimes things cannot be grouped.
(c) He insists on rationalizing everything,
(d) He insists on explaining everything, and some things cannot be explained.

3. What was don Juan going to attempt to teach Carlos this time?
(a) All of these.
(b) To gain the water as an ally.
(c) To use the water in order to move.
(d) Neither of these.

4. How many points are men capable of handling?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Eight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does an ally have substance?

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

3. What did don Juan say that Carlos was indulging himself in?

4. What does a man who knows that his death is imminent have to fall back on?

5. What was Carlos' irrational fear based on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Carlos fail to do while in the forest and hearing all the sounds around him?

2. What happens to a man when he becomes a man of knowledge?

3. Why is the water dangerous?

4. What was the only way to dull the edge off of learning about one's death was?

5. Why did Carlos drop his apprenticeship?

6. What is a negative type of spirit and what are the consequences to having one of these kinds of spirits take notice of you?

7. How was the promise in Carlos' childhood preventing him from getting past the guardian?

8. What is the difference between the way regular people treat the world, and the way a warrior treats the world?

9. What strange occurrence happened when Carlos just simply listened?

10. What did Carlos assume don Juan had done to him regarding the wall? How did Carlos refute this?

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