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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Man has a gap in his cocoon near his ______. When the tumbler hits it repeatedly, it cracks and the man dies.
(a) Armpit.
(b) Neck.
(c) Forehead.
(d) Navel.

2. What does Carlos feel like after his experience with La Catalina?
(a) Happy.
(b) Emboldened.
(c) Enlightened.
(d) Depressed.

3. The transition period when the assemblage point is moving is called the moment of _______ or the wall of fog.
(a) Seeing.
(b) Conceptual blankness.
(c) Perceptual blankness.
(d) Dark night of the soul.

4. After the encounter with the mold of man, Don Juan mockingly suggests that the narrator become a ______.
(a) Doctor.
(b) Priest.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Carpenter.

5. Don Juan instructs the narrator to look around him and he sees _______. Then the three of them begin walking back towards the rock.
(a) The allies.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Hell.
(d) The eagle.

6. Don Juan says that __________ can help guide the movement of the assemblage point in dreaming.
(a) Meditation.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Sobriety.
(d) Chanting.

7. Seers recommend that warriors ______ when anger or any other strong emotion comes their way, because it shifts their assemblage point.
(a) Hold their stomachs.
(b) Roll thier eyes.
(c) Close their hands.
(d) Close thier eyes.

8. After the return to the rock, the narrator becomes aware of the fact that it is ______ who is pushing him to continue although it seems like the other is pushing him.
(a) The earth.
(b) Genaro.
(c) The eagle.
(d) Don Juan.

9. A seer needs _____________ in his daily life in order to obtain the dreaming body, according to Don Juan's teachings.
(a) Nourishment.
(b) Impeccability.
(c) Support.
(d) Water.

10. Julian teaches in a way which is more __________ than the way Don Juan teaches and does not allow for choice and free will.
(a) Honest.
(b) Kind.
(c) Brutal.
(d) Coercive.

11. The narrator must shift this position in order to remember who the _____ in his dream was.
(a) Boy.
(b) Woman.
(c) Girl.
(d) Man.

12. Don Juan suggests that the narrator is failing in his bid for enlightenment. The narrator's confused _______ attention does not want to relinquish control.
(a) First.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Second.
(d) Third.

13. The narrator is instructed to move his assemblage point, unaided, to align another great band of ______.
(a) Emanations.
(b) Seers.
(c) Molds.
(d) Experiences.

14. The narrator hears a noise behind him and turning back he sees three grotesquely deformed ______.
(a) Men.
(b) Women.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Monsters.

15. Where does Don Juan tell Carlos he should go if he should ever fail in a task so that Don Juan can come to collect him there?
(a) His power spot.
(b) Home.
(c) His bench.
(d) A lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator wakes in a stranger's bed and Don Juan is there with him. The narrator angrily stomps out of the house and begins to panic until Don Juan ____ him.

2. The old seers used to intend death away through _______, which allowed them to escape the strikes of the tumbler.

3. What is the animal form which La Catalina took when she was working with the other men?

4. Some stalkers will ___________ for their fellow man, while others will not, according to Don Juan.

5. The narrator is confused about his inability to _______ seeing the mold of man although he understands it is a slow process.

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