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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Each person is born with a _________ of power and each is linked to everyone else's.
(a) Ring
(b) Word
(c) String
(d) Glass

2. If an ________ does not come, then it means Castaneda is not able to hunt power.
(a) Eagle
(b) Omen
(c) Indian
(d) Entity

3. What does Castaneda see that makes him realize that he is just the same as this item?
(a) Kite
(b) Beetle
(c) Fog
(d) Car

4. What does Don Juan tell Castaneda to use in order to relieve his muscles?
(a) Cactus
(b) Peyote
(c) Water
(d) Bush

5. Castaneda is learning to make traps in order to catch an animal who can provide him with ______________.
(a) Skin
(b) Answers
(c) Power food
(d) Hallucinogenic experiences

6. Don Juan tricked Castaneda into confronting her for the purpose of finding Castaneda a ______________.
(a) Wife
(b) Power animal
(c) Worthy opponent
(d) New teacher

7. Where does Don Juan go as the men are talking to each other around the gathering place?
(a) Car
(b) Boulder
(c) Building
(d) Tree

8. As Castaneda might become deathly ill, they must go to his place of ____________ to be cleansed and restored.
(a) Weakness
(b) Power
(c) Predilection
(d) Understanding

9. What does Don Juan want Castaneda to move his eyes back and forth along?
(a) The stars
(b) The bank of fog
(c) The mountains
(d) The ground

10. What is the outfit Castaneda sees Don Juan wear when he reemerges from his hiding place?
(a) Pirate
(b) Swim coach
(c) Show girl
(d) Teacher

11. Don Juan tells Castaneda that this mood he tends to lapse into is like a _____________.
(a) Bottomless ocean
(b) Tree
(c) Bird in flight
(d) Trap door

12. Castaneda admits that the __________ is only real when he is with Don Juan.
(a) World
(b) Plant
(c) Power
(d) Lesson

13. What does Castaneda ask when Don Genaro tells him he was directed to go to Ixtlan?
(a) What Ixtlan is
(b) Why he didn't run
(c) If it hurt
(d) If he went

14. Don Juan uses a rock to show the idea of not-doing. "To look at it is ___________ but to see is __________."
(a) Something; nothing
(b) Not-doing; doing
(c) Doing; not-doing
(d) Nothing; something

15. What kinds of motions does Don Genaro make on the floor which seem to defy nature?
(a) Carving
(b) Dancing
(c) Swimming
(d) Flying

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Don Juan and Castaneda going to search for when they drive off to the mountains?

2. Don Genaro tells Castaneda of his encounter tackling his __________, a long time ago, it seems.

3. Personal power is a ____________, or a mood, according to Don Juan, even though Castaneda does not understand this.

4. The place of power is not a ___________, so there are no bones buried there as Castaneda guesses might be.

5. Don Juan yells at Castaneda who feels strange, as though something is about to ____________.

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