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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________ is not an enemy as many people like to believe that it is, according to Don Juan in the story.
(a) Truth.
(b) Death.
(c) Power.
(d) Understanding.

2. Pure __________ only happens after the somersault of thought, according to Don Juan, but Carlos does not understand what this means.
(a) Power.
(b) Momentum.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Truth.

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

4. When a person takes this action (from #104), Don Juan says that the person will be able to break __________________.
(a) True words.
(b) Old thinking patterns.
(c) Perceptual barriers.
(d) Sentences apart.

5. When others came to stay with Julian during Don Juan's time with him, Don Juan felt he was ____________ to these visitors.
(a) A student.
(b) A slave.
(c) Superior.
(d) Lesser.

6. Where does Carlos decide to take Don Juan when Carlos begins to think that something is wrong with Don Juan?
(a) Restaurant.
(b) Local healer.
(c) Home.
(d) Hospital.

7. 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 seeing.
(c) Not knowing.
(d) Not doing.

8. To whose house do Carlos and Don Juan return when they are done with their lessons with the others?
(a) Don Juan's.
(b) Elias'.
(c) Carlos'.
(d) Julian's.

9. The ___________ is a point which is contained in the shine of the sorcerer's eyes, according to Don Juan in the story.
(a) Emanations.
(b) Assemblage point.
(c) Energy bands.
(d) Power.

10. Carlos begins to realize that his assemblage point is allowing him to develop a new form of _______________ in his life.
(a) Power.
(b) Movement.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Continuity.

11. ___________ requires that the sorcerer banish doubt from their mind, allowing anything to become possible for the person.
(a) Sweetness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Ruthlessness.
(d) Intensity.

12. What does Don Juan continue to see even though the others in the house can not, so Julian says that he needs to stay?
(a) His dead wife.
(b) Ashes.
(c) Monster.
(d) The peyote spirit.

13. Carlos had a frightening lack of _________ when Don Juan decides to do the things that he does to Carlos before shaking off the ruse.
(a) Truth.
(b) Anger.
(c) Pity.
(d) Happiness.

14. Don Juan lets Carlos know that ________ helps one develop a silent knowledge in their life, according to his teachings.
(a) A shadow.
(b) Pain.
(c) Awareness.
(d) Repetition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Don Juan quizzes Carlos on what he has learned and tells him that moving the ___________ is not the first principle of sorcery, though it often happens first.

2. To what area do Don Juan and Carlos return a few days later in the story, according to the writing of Carlos?

3. Who tells Don Juan that he needs to become an apprentice as he is on that path during the story?

4. When you stalk yourself, Don Juan says, you ________ yourself into a new state of awareness.

5. Man's __________reaches its limits when the action from #104 is taken, according to the teachings of Don Juan.

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