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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 the stage of dreaming in which the dreamer takes action?
(a) Dynamic initiative.
(b) Dynamic vigil.
(c) Passive witnessing.
(d) Restful vigil.

2. Total ________ consists of the physical body and the luminous body that only seers are able to perceive.
(a) Love.
(b) Soul.
(c) Being.
(d) Person.

3. The apprentice speaks of the stone ruins in terms of the fearsome _______ and the peaceful tonal structures, which confuses Carlos.
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Nagual.
(c) Silvio.
(d) Don Juan.

4. Which group has been cold to Carlos up until the point that they begin to remember some forgotten past deed?
(a) The Naguals.
(b) The men.
(c) The Tonals.
(d) The little sisters.

5. Don Juan orders Carlos to learn by interacting with __________ to face life's trying situations.
(a) Pablito.
(b) Don Silvio.
(c) La Gorda.
(d) Rosa.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Another name for second attention is the ____________ of consciousness, according to Don Juan and to La Gorda.

3. The author, Carlos Castaneda, is a/an ____________from the University of California, Los Angeles.

4. To where does Carlos suggest that he and La Gorda go for a drive when they are talking together?

5. __________says that Silvio gives Carlos all that he is, causing Carlos to not be seen as the leader anymore.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when La Gorda declares that the power spot has given them freedom at this point of the story?

2. What does La Gorda seem to recall in painful memories to the group about Carlos?

3. What happens to Carlos' body when he arrives back in Los Angeles and wakes up one morning?

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

5. What happens when the apprentices try to reach a power spot in the mountains?

6. What happens the time that Carlos begins to dream about himself sleeping, as La Gorda finds out from asking?

7. What does Pablito offer about the ruins which Carlos has now visited in Tula?

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

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

10. What is the image in Carlos' mind which plays when he is feverish in bed one day?

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