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

2. Don Juan dispenses with the ritual, but insists on an omen - _______________.
(a) A horn.
(b) A traffic stop.
(c) A loud bell.
(d) A marching band.

3. Florinda teaches the Genaros advanced ____________, including techniques of controlled folly.
(a) Seeing.
(b) Walking.
(c) Stalking.
(d) Dreaming.

4. The blows between the ____________ is what knocks the air out of the lungs of Carlos and La Gorda, which serves as a catalyst.
(a) Wrists.
(b) Shoulder blades.
(c) Feet.
(d) Hips.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many principles of stalking does Florinda say that she will be teaching Carlos as he continues working with her?

2. What does Olinda need to learn in order to quickly become the Nagual woman of Don Juan?

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

4. Olinda goes ahead to ___________ as Don Juan and his warriors collect a warrior band together.

5. Don Juan offers to show a government clerk the last of the Indian ___________ as a way to get her to become a being.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the sensation that Zuleica elicits in Carlos when they are working together?

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

5. What is the second series of not-doings which Silvio introduces to La Gorda and to Carlos?

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

7. What happens to Carlos when he is undergoing his westerly encounter?

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

9. What happens in relation to action when a person is on the left side?

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

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