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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. Where do the four Indians and Castaneda gather around when they meet up in the border town?
(a) Store
(b) Fire
(c) Corral
(d) Bar

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

3. Don Juan reminds Castaneda of the time he mentally jammed his ___________ so that he could not use it.
(a) Car
(b) Phone
(c) Pen
(d) Radio

4. When Don Juan and Castaneda go to a certain place of power, it is explained this rock formation is a place where warriors were once __________.
(a) Anointed
(b) Victorious
(c) Buried
(d) Born

5. If Castaneda is not able to hunt for power, Don Juan says that he will be free to be _____________, but Don Juan will continue to be his friend.
(a) A writer
(b) A plant scholar
(c) Stupid
(d) A student

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of bed does Don Juan prepare for Castaneda when they are trying to prevent illness in Castaneda?

2. Castaneda learns how to do a dance that thumps like a __________ from Don Juan in the evening.

3. Don Juan tells Castaneda that this mood he tends to lapse into is like a _____________.

4. Don Juan tells Castaneda to concentrate on specific _____________ in order to be successful in his dream work.

5. What does Don Juan collect for the night, though he does not let Castaneda help him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Don Juan warn Castaneda not to turn around as they leave the Indians they have met?

2. What is the purpose of the trip the men are taking to the mountain range?

3. Why aren't Don Juan and Castaneda staying the night at the rock conglomerate?

4. Why did Don Juan trick Castaneda into confronting La Catalina the month before?

5. Why does Castaneda say that he fears Don Genero when he meets up with him again?

6. What costume does Castaneda see Don Juan as wearing when he and the other men are sitting around the fire?

7. What does Don Genero use to make a kite, confusing Castaneda's perception of how a kite should work?

8. What does Castaneda say is like a disease to him, which he begins to realize is a problem?

9. What does Don Juan tell Castaneda about his feelings of remorse about his own life?

10. What does Don Juan say about his own death and his interaction with it?

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