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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 does Don Juan do in order to push Carlos into a heightened state of awareness in the beginning of the story?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Whisper.
(c) Slap him on the back.
(d) Sing.

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

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

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

5. Carlos concentrates so hard on the conversation he is having with Don Juan that he does not realize that he _________.
(a) Sings.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Dances.
(d) Eats.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Carlos is extremely fatigued because Don Genaro pushed him into the ___________ and the narrator doesn't have enough energy for that.

5. Talking about petty tyrants was only an introduction to the lesson on the topic of ___________, according to Don Juan.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How might one describe the idea of the nagual's blow, according to the teachings of Don Juan in the story?

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

7. What does Don Juan reveal about the Toltecs and how some of them lost their knowledge?

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

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

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

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