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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. What do Don Juan and Don Genaro do in order to play a little joke on Carlos? What do they put in front of him?
(a) A bowl of paste.
(b) A bird.
(c) Empty plate.
(d) Bottle of rum.

2. When the ___________ does not return to its usual position this can cause a person to begin to go crazy.
(a) Lesson.
(b) Human body.
(c) Dream.
(d) Assemblage point.

3. Talking about petty tyrants was only an introduction to the lesson on the topic of ___________, according to Don Juan.
(a) Seeing.
(b) Stalking.
(c) Truth.
(d) Awareness.

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

5. Don Juan defines a ____________ as a tormentor in the life of a person, causing them to learn a lesson as a result.
(a) Petty tyrant.
(b) Ally.
(c) Soul seeker.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Don Juan says that they are going to talk about La Gorda in order to provoke her ______________ in her reaction.

2. Where does the narrator find himself during his new state of awareness, wanting to join the others there?

3. Who wants to travel to the answer to #13 with Don Juan and Carlos, although Don Juan forbids it?

4. What does La Gorda do when she becomes angry with Carlos in the course of their meeting time?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Don Genaro care about the explanations of things which are being taught to Carlos?

2. Why does Carlos become suspicious of Don Juan and Don Genaro as they are sitting together?

3. What is the reason why Don Genaro is able to push the narrator's assemblage point in the story?

4. Why is the unknowable draining for new seers who have come to the path of being a student?

5. What were the two means of transportation into the realm of inorganic life which Don Juan says the Toltecs used?

6. What does Don Juan believe the reason for the existence of sentient beings actually is, and the narrator does not argue the point?

7. What are the two types of seers which Don Juan describes to Carlos in their teachings together?

8. What happens to Carlos' memories when he returns to normal awareness after being in a state of heightened awareness?

9. What is Carlos told to do when he asks for an example of what an ancient Toltec practice might be?

10. What does La Gorda do which immediately makes her feel badly, causing her to sit and weep after the incident?

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