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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. The first lesson that Don Juan wants to teach Carlos is the mastery of _____________ so that Carlos may become a seer.
(a) Honesty.
(b) Movement.
(c) Awareness.
(d) Stalking.

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

3. Who does Don Juan warn Carlos he will meet the next day, someone who is scarier than the vision in the mirror?
(a) The creature.
(b) Eagles.
(c) Don Luis.
(d) La Catalina.

4. A blow from a nagual will create a sent in man's ____________, displacing the glow of awareness, according to Don Juan.
(a) Skin.
(b) Personality.
(c) Cocoon.
(d) Truth.

5. What does La Gorda do when she becomes angry with Carlos in the course of their meeting time?
(a) Rips his skin.
(b) Sings to him.
(c) Kisses him.
(d) Slaps him.

Short Answer Questions

1. When La Gorda does what she does to Carlos, what does Don Juan do in response to this action?

2. Who becomes offended with Don Juan when he has not spoken to this character in two days?

3. Don Juan _________ is the Mexican-Indian sorcerer with which Carlos has been training for some time.

4. Carlos needs to be in a state of _____________ awareness when he is learning with Don Juan.

5. While Don Genaro is sleeping, Don Juan explains to Carlos the second ____________ about awareness and seeing.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Don Genaro find humorous about the various side of the narrator when they are all sitting at Don Genaro's house?

4. What does Carlos learn when he asks Don Juan if the warriors are preparing for death?

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

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

7. What does the assemblage point select for alignment, as taught by Don Juan in a state of heightened awareness?

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

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

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

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