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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the stage of dreaming in which the dreamer takes action?

2. Who pushed Carlos in the airline office, which signifies another power spot for him?

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

4. Which of the apprentices decides to run away to Tula in order to die, though Carlos will not let him?

5. Carlos once, when dreaming, leaves the house through ____________ and has no sensation of moving at all.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens during the process of ghost dreaming, according to Carlos and La Gorda?

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

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

5. Who are the three Genaros with whom Carlos is reunited during the course of this book's story?

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

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

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

9. What does Dona Soledad have to share with Carlos when he encounters her in the house?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Carlos decides to act as though nothing is wrong, since he feels this is his duty.

Part 1: Do you think it is right to act as though nothing is wrong in your life, even if it is?

Part 2: How do you think Carlos should have acted when he returned to Los Angeles?

Part 3: Why do you think Carlos feels it is his duty to act as though nothing is wrong?

Essay Topic 2

Attention makes the world, Carlos and La Gorda understand this through their teachings.

Part 1: Why do you think that attention is what makes the world?

Part 2: Can there ever be a lack of attention in the world? What would happen?

Part 3: How do you think that your attention wavers in the world? Or is it always focused?

Essay Topic 3

Carlos has had experiences in the past which were induced by drugs, though now he is having similar experiences without drugs.

Part 1: What do you think the value of using those hallucinogenic drugs may have been for Carlos?

Part 2: Do you think that drugs are always necessary in order to introduce a person to new experiences?

Part 3: Why do you think that Carlos is now able to have the same experiences he's had in the past, but without drugs?

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