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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. Don Juan tells Carlos that the deepest learning will come during the period of ______________.
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Transition.
(c) Action.
(d) Movement.

2. Who arrives and pushes the assemblage point of Carlos in order to show him what the lesson means for him?
(a) Don Genaro.
(b) Don Juan.
(c) La Catalina.
(d) La Gorda.

3. Where is Don Juan when Carlos goes to see him in Oaxaca to see him for his new set of lessons?
(a) In the middle of the square.
(b) A church.
(c) An old truck.
(d) His bench.

4. What might the narrator's state of mind be described as in this part of the book, which leads Don Juan and Don Genaro to question whether he wants to be there?
(a) Melancholy.
(b) Immaturity.
(c) Anger.
(d) Happiness.

5. Men perceive a a world of ___________ which in reality are a universe of a different kind, according to the lessons of Don Juan
(a) Books.
(b) Objects.
(c) Stationary ideas.
(d) Truths.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first lesson that Don Juan wants to teach Carlos is the mastery of _____________ so that Carlos may become a seer.

2. According to the lesson, the shift in the assemblage point is not only ____________.

3. What suddenly appears in the mirror which Carlos is holding and looking into during a lesson with Don Juan?

4. ___________ are incapable of harming men but they are capable of scaring them to death, according to Don Juan.

5. Warriors are preparing for ______________, and not death, according to Don Juan when Carlos asks him that question.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Don Genaro help to spur on Carlos into a heightened state of awareness?

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

4. What does Carlos learn about the seer and the Eagle's emanations right before he falls asleep?

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

6. Don Juan explains that there are two sides of awareness in the world. What are the two sides of awareness?

7. What is the explanation for the fatigue which Carlos is feeling after his experience with Don Genaro and Don Juan?

8. Why does La Gorda want to go into town with Don Juan and Carlos when the decide to do so?

9. What needs to happen if Carlos is to perceive an ally with his teachers and in his lessons?

10. Why was Don Juan sent to the boss' house when he is working at a sugar mill as a young man?

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