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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. Why does Don Juan leave Carlos sitting on a bench in the middle of Mexico?
(a) He needs to run errands.
(b) He is bored with Carlos.
(c) He doesn't.
(d) He is leaving town.

2. When must Florinda come back to the curer or else she would wish she were dead?
(a) Twenty days.
(b) Ten days.
(c) Nine days.
(d) Five days.

3. Crossing over to freedom is not ___________, but a preservation of awareness that is normally lost at death.
(a) The goal.
(b) The end.
(c) The truth.
(d) Eternal life.

4. The warriors are deliberately difficult with Don Juan, forcing a breakthrough on the ___________ side.
(a) Right.
(b) North.
(c) West.
(d) Left.

5. What sort of disease causes Florinda to seek out the advice of an Indian curer, forsaking her Catholic upbringing?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Leg disease.
(c) A bad headache.
(d) Arm fungus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Naguals have male and female ___________ who live in groupings and who only come together for strenuous tasks.

2. La Gorda and Carlos both remember ____________ moving them from the right side to the left side.

3. Don Juan's _________ helps him to understand the facts of death, and so Don Juan helps his apprentices, especially Carlos.

4. The woman shows the rare ability to turn off the __________ at will, turning it on and off as she likes.

5. What brings anguish to Carlos and to La Gorda as they are performing their tasks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Don Juan approach the woman who he feels is a double woman?

2. What does Silvio begin to realize about the group of people which has been gathered?

3. What happens when Don Juan and the others explode from within when they are undergoing their training?

4. What comes into focus when La Gorda slims down from her previously larger figure?

5. What is the first of the not-doings which Carlos has to do according to Silvio as he instructs Carlos and La Gorda?

6. What happens to Don Juan in order to help to cure him of lust during this apprenticeship?

7. What does the woman tell Carlos after chiding him for his snobbishness while sitting on the bench?

8. What does Don Juan describe as being the warrior's rule?

9. What does Don Juan give as a warning when he gives Carlos to Zuleica?

10. Why does Zuleica have to work quickly to teach the idea of second attention to the apprentices?

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