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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 is Carlos' problem?
(a) He's too willing to commit to something he doesn't understand.
(b) He doesn't listen well enough.
(c) He's willing to abandon himself.
(d) All of these.

2. What idea was quite gruesome to Carlos?
(a) The sorcerer challenged death.
(b) The sorcerer embraced and accepted death.
(c) The sorcerer actually played with his death.
(d) All of these.

3. What was Carlos' irrational fear based on?
(a) The fear that he was being watched.
(b) The pressure of the need to perform.
(c) The paranoia that the woman was hunting him.
(d) The focus on which he had to exert.

4. What did don Juan see when he looked into Carlos?
(a) A little girl with a button nose that was crying,
(b) A little boy with a button nose that was crying.
(c) Carlos as a child crying.
(d) None of these.

5. What was the most important thing for Carlos to find?
(a) Holes in which game dwelt.
(b) Holes that were in the realm of seeing.
(c) Holes in which rabbits dwelt.
(d) Holes in the fabric of space and time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the hardest thing for Castaneda to stop doing?

2. What did the second appearance of the ally mean?

3. When does the guardian become nothing?

4. What must Carlos be before meeting an ally?

5. What did the holes and gaps in the sounds show Carlos?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why should Carlos be afraid of the repetition of the same thing for the rest of his life?

2. What was the only thought that brought comfort to Carlos while he was in the forest?

3. Why can't Carlos 'see' accurately?

4. Why is it important that a warrior apologizes to the things he has hurt?

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

6. How is will different from seeing?

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

8. What mistake did Carlos make in his first attempt to get up? How did he finally succeed?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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