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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ___________ are incapable of harming men but they are capable of scaring them to death, according to Don Juan.
(a) Eagles.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Spirits.
(d) Allies.

2. At what sort of place does Don Juan work himself to the bone, which is where he meets his petty tyrant?
(a) Sugar mill.
(b) Corn field.
(c) Paper mill.
(d) Wheat mill.

3. Since there is nothing visual about the ___________, Don Juan says that a person must be able to witness it in order to understand it.
(a) Eagle.
(b) Mountain.
(c) Lesson.
(d) Truth.

4. What needs to be acquired in order to help move one's assemblage point from its customary position?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Medicine experience.
(c) Songs.
(d) New habits.

5. Some seers will witness an Eagle as something which ___________ men at their death, while others will not.
(a) Devours.
(b) Dances.
(c) Sings with.
(d) Flies with.

6. According to the lesson, the shift in the assemblage point is not only ____________.
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Mental.
(c) Madness.
(d) Physical.

7. Who is able to shift the assemblage point of the narrator only because he stops his internal dialogue?
(a) Carlos.
(b) Pablito.
(c) Don Genaro.
(d) Don Juan.

8. It is useless, according to __________, to single out the Yaquis when the conditions of men in general is hell.
(a) La Catalina.
(b) Don Juan.
(c) Don Genaro.
(d) La Gorda.

9. How many mentors does Don Genaro have back at his house when Carlos and Don Juan join them there?
(a) None.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

10. Don Juan reminds Carlos of the time he shifted his assemblage point and became a ____________.
(a) Tiger.
(b) Dog.
(c) Crow.
(d) Snake.

11. Where does the narrator find himself during his new state of awareness, wanting to join the others there?
(a) Airplane.
(b) School.
(c) Bank.
(d) Church.

12. While Don Genaro is sleeping, Don Juan explains to Carlos the second ____________ about awareness and seeing.
(a) Promise.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Emanation.
(d) Truth.

13. Where does Don Juan want to go with Carlos, though he does not want anyone else to go with them?
(a) The ocean.
(b) Town square.
(c) A lake.
(d) Peru.

14. The nagual's ___________ occurs when the usual emanations are pushed to neighboring emanations, according to Don Juan.
(a) Strike.
(b) Blow.
(c) Breath.
(d) Death.

15. What is the indescribable force which is the source of all sentient beings, according to the teachings of Don Juan?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Mother.
(c) Eagle.
(d) Hawk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ends up killing the foreman when he is trying to go after Don Juan during his time at the mill?

2. The Toltecs started on the path of power by eating _____________, according to the teaching of Don Juan.

3. The new seers are consumed by a _________ from within, vanishing as if they never existed in the first place.

4. The ___________ is draining, according to Don Juan as he talks to Carlos in his lessons with him.

5. What does Don Juan do in order to push Carlos into a heightened state of awareness in the beginning of the story?

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