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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Don Juan and Carlos spend the night in the spot where Carlos remembered his experience in _____________.
(a) Mexico City.
(b) Iquitos.
(c) Nogales.
(d) Guaymas.

2. Who is Don Juan waiting for when he is at the hacienda with the women, though the man does not return?
(a) Carlos.
(b) Belisario.
(c) Silverado.
(d) Don Matus.

3. Where are Carlos and Don Juan heading when Carlos begins to think that something is wrong with Don Juan?
(a) Phoenix.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Nogales.
(d) Iquitos.

4. Man's __________reaches its limits when the action from #104 is taken, according to the teachings of Don Juan.
(a) Perception.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Truth.
(d) Belief.

5. What happens when Don Juan asks Carlos to take him to a store where people know him?
(a) He jumps out of the car.
(b) He goes cold.
(c) He doesn't acknowledge Carlos.
(d) He gives bad directions.

6. Where was the surgical procedure that Carlos witnessed, though he does not believe the healer was really doing what he seemed to be doing?
(a) Mexico City.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Nogales.
(d) Iquitos.

7. Carlos describes to Don Juan that he feels he has lost his _________ as a person after this lesson with Don Juan.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Memory.
(c) Solidity.
(d) Power.

8. The state in which a person ceases to be a self-reflector is called the _________ state, according to Don Juan while he teaches Carlos.
(a) Not understanding.
(b) Not doing.
(c) Not seeing.
(d) Not knowing.

9. What does Julian suggest to Don Juan as a way to defeat self-importance, though there are three different ways?
(a) Scarring.
(b) Symbolic death.
(c) Gradual.
(d) Place of not pity.

10. Death can be seen as a challenge to live a life of ___________ in contact with intent, according to the teachings of Don Juan.
(a) Power.
(b) Truth.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Trust.

11. What does Don Juan do in order to cause Carlos to begin to look at himself more closely and inside of himself?
(a) Taps his eyes.
(b) Stare at him.
(c) Give him peyote.
(d) Nothing.

12. What does Julian do to Don Juan when Don Juan agrees that he wants to learn what the spirit is?
(a) Throws him in the river.
(b) Poisons him.
(c) Pushes him off a cliff.
(d) Shoots him in the back.

13. Carlos begins to notice that his mind switches back and forth between mental __________ and mental fatigue as he is talking with Don Juan.
(a) Astuteness.
(b) Organization.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Clarity.

14. What do Don Juan and Carlos decide to do after they have their conversation at the house?
(a) Go supply shopping.
(b) Make tea.
(c) Walk around town.
(d) Get drunk.

15. The knowledge of _________ signals the presence of intent, according to the teachings about silent knowledge from Don Juan.
(a) Power.
(b) Trickery.
(c) Dualism.
(d) Illusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the ways Don Juan suggests that Carlos can begin to remember the things he wants to remember?

2. What does Carlos decide that he will buy in order to try to get back to Don Juan in order to help him after he is run off?

3. Pure __________ only happens after the somersault of thought, according to Don Juan, but Carlos does not understand what this means.

4. What does Carlos begin to suspect is wrong with Don Juan when they are traveling together in the car?

5. Who calls Carlos a petty, wasteful, opinionated, coercive, short tempered, and conceited man in the course of the story?

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