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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. To where does Carlos suggest that he and La Gorda go for a drive when they are talking together?
(a) Maui.
(b) Baja City.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Mexico City.

2. Where do La Gorda and Lydia go at the beginning of this section, according to the storytelling?
(a) Home.
(b) America.
(c) Mass.
(d) School.

3. La Gorda decides to divert Carlos into talking about his ______________ when they are together.
(a) Books.
(b) Drug use.
(c) Fantasies.
(d) Dreaming.

4. Who tries to stop Carlos from stopping the person who decides to go off to die in the city?
(a) Jose.
(b) Pablito.
(c) The women.
(d) Nestor.

5. In the memory of what happened with Silvio, the women remember not being hurt, but being _____________.
(a) Invisible.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Alone.
(d) Paralyzed with fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. When La Gorda and Carlos go into town, she talks to him about rallying ___________ as they had on the day that the fight broke out.

2. Who is Don Juan's feminine analogue, according to the remembering of Carlos?

3. How many times do Eligio and Josefina have to snatch La Gorda back from her dreaming at this point of the story?

4. Name one of the apprentices who is supposed to be the heart of the rattlesnake coupling.

5. One time during Carlos' dream, the street becomes a primeval _________ in which Carlos finds himself.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Carlos and La Gorda see when they are sitting on the bench in Oaxaca and resting their heads together?

2. What does La Gorda think about the Nagual Woman and what her purpose is for Carlos?

3. What is the sign that the apprentices are ready to move on after the scuffle between Carlos and the women?

4. When can the first attention be accessed when a person is awake, according to the lessons?

5. To whom are the pyramids harmful, according to Pablito at the beginning of the book?

6. Who are the three sisters with whom Carlos Castaneda is reunited during the course of this book?

7. What is missing from Silvio Manuel's house when the apprentices, and especially Josefina, see it?

8. What has Don Juan foreseen happening to the apprentices when they are working together?

9. What happens when Pablito tells the others he is going to Tula in order to die?

10. What does Carlos realize about the four amorphous blobs of light he has seen? How did he respond to them?

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