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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. Who pushed Carlos in the airline office, which signifies another power spot for him?
(a) No one.
(b) Don Genaro.
(c) Don Juan.
(d) Don Silvio.

2. How many times do Eligio and Josefina have to snatch La Gorda back from her dreaming at this point of the story?
(a) Twice.
(b) Once.
(c) Three times.
(d) Four times.

3. La Gorda becomes angry at being reminded that she is an unbearable _______ -- empty while wanting to be cute.
(a) Idiot.
(b) Apprentice.
(c) Sorcerer.
(d) Woman.

4. What is the name of the person who got Carlos the peyote plants he used to need when working with Don Juan?
(a) Vicente.
(b) Lydia.
(c) Pablito.
(d) La Gorda.

5. Carlos recalls that the Nagual woman provides the _______ from which he reads to Don Juan.
(a) Magazines.
(b) Papers.
(c) Pamphlets.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to stop Carlos from stopping the person who decides to go off to die in the city?

2. Who is certain that Don Juan and Don Genaro are close by, though this person cannot see them?

3. __________ had supposedly gone beyond the wall of fog seeking La Gorda, nearly died, and then recognized no one after that.

4. La Gorda and Carlos begin to remember a woman in a ___________ car from their times with Don Juan.

5. What is the second stage of dreaming in which the light dissipates and the dreamer views a static, frozen tableau?

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 happens when Carlos suggests they immerse themselves in dreaming?

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

4. What does Carlos do in his dream once he realizes what he is supposed to do?

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

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

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

8. What promise of Don Juan's does Nestor remind the group of apprentices of?

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

10. How does La Gorda shock the apprentices when she talks to them about Carlos?

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