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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. No one, it seems, is worried about ___________ survival, as this person has been protected in many ways.
(a) La Gorda's.
(b) Carlos'.
(c) Pablito's.
(d) Lydia's.

2. Eligio tells Carlos about breaking into the __________ and takes him into the abyss with him.
(a) Shadow.
(b) Pain.
(c) Glory.
(d) Death.

3. Zuleica causes Carlos to have the sensation of sweeping the ____________ from the midpoint of his body.
(a) Floor.
(b) Ceiling.
(c) Tunnel.
(d) Dust.

4. __________ is mortified being taken daily to Mass, when he is with his benefactor.
(a) Don Genaro.
(b) Don Silvio.
(c) Don Juan.
(d) Carlos.

5. One of the stalker rules is to try to unravel the mysteries without hope of ______________.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Help.
(c) Living.
(d) Doing so.

6. Don Juan offers to show a government clerk the last of the Indian ___________ as a way to get her to become a being.
(a) Women.
(b) Power dancers.
(c) Shamans.
(d) Babies.

7. Instead of wasting time, Don Juan decides to confront his apprentices with difficult situations and then forces them to ____________.
(a) Be in pain.
(b) Cry.
(c) Accept it.
(d) Figure it out.

8. What brings anguish to Carlos and to La Gorda as they are performing their tasks?
(a) Leaving the world.
(b) Their new relationship.
(c) Don Juan's death.
(d) Everything.

9. Seers are seen as being luminous _________, having four different sections, their right and left sides with two sections each.
(a) Eggs.
(b) Boxes.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Snakes.

10. The controlled folly techniques have everyone thinking that ____________ is Pablito's mother.
(a) Rosa.
(b) La Gorda.
(c) Josefina.
(d) Soledad.

11. Who of the group regularly disappears and returns, telling tales of his findings when he's back?
(a) Eligio.
(b) Silvio.
(c) Carlos.
(d) Don Juan.

12. __________ deal with the world as business managers, using "controlled folly" as Carlos and La Gorda experience.
(a) Dreamers.
(b) Bankers.
(c) Seers.
(d) Stalkers.

13. After Carlos and La Gorda collapse into the dreaming position, they awaken where they begin, with identical ____________.
(a) Voices.
(b) Truths.
(c) Memories.
(d) Feathers.

14. The process of forgetting everything is also called _________ from within, in which the warriors forget their teachings completely.
(a) Exploding.
(b) Quieting.
(c) Burning.
(d) Darkening.

15. Who is the slender, radiant old child that Carlos meets when he comes up to a rural house?
(a) Emilio.
(b) Silvio in disguise.
(c) His child self.
(d) Pablito.

Short Answer Questions

1. The blows between the ____________ is what knocks the air out of the lungs of Carlos and La Gorda, which serves as a catalyst.

2. It is also imperative that stalkers compress ____________, as every second counts.

3. What does Carlos gaze at from his wooden crate for hours at a time once he masters his lessons?

4. Who is the only person who remembers the knowledge that Don Juan and the others have forgotten at once?

5. Carlos practices on every volitional movement, minimizing _____________ as he does so.

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