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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Don Juan tells Carlos that ________ is kind and sweet for the sorcerer when they are talking about their lessons and lives.
(a) Change.
(b) Birth.
(c) Movement.
(d) Death.

2. What does Carlos begin to suspect is wrong with Don Juan when they are traveling together in the car?
(a) Pulmonary embolism.
(b) Stomach flu.
(c) Flu.
(d) Stroke.

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

4. What does Carlos do when he is trying to help Don Juan when he walks away from the car?
(a) Scream at him.
(b) Pity him.
(c) Hurt him.
(d) Ignore his cries of pain.

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

6. What is one of the ways Don Juan suggests that Carlos can begin to remember the things he wants to remember?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Writing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Stalking.

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

8. The third point of reference that Carlos achieved is the freedom of ________ and it is also called intent.
(a) Perception.
(b) Belief.
(c) Perfection.
(d) Truth.

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

10. What is Don Juan dressed in when he is in Durango during the story he tells Carlos of his impeccability?
(a) Men's clothing.
(b) Women's clothing.
(c) A sheet.
(d) Nothing.

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

12. 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) Clarity.
(d) Boredom.

13. Unbending ________ requires getting a third point of reference on one's action, beyond the regular two points of reference.
(a) Movement.
(b) Intent.
(c) Action.
(d) Power.

14. What formations are able to help a sorcerer begin to shift assemblage points, according to the teachings of Don Juan?
(a) Glass.
(b) Hair.
(c) Rock.
(d) Footprint.

15. Who calls Carlos a petty, wasteful, opinionated, coercive, short tempered, and conceited man in the course of the story?
(a) Elias.
(b) Don Matus.
(c) Don Juan.
(d) Julian.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Sorcerers, according to Don Juan, only _________ when they have to, or so he tells Carlos in the story.

3. What does Don Juan do in order to cause Carlos to begin to look at himself more closely and inside of himself?

4. Don Juan tells Carlos that he came to be impeccable in his own life by _________, according to the story he tells.

5. Where was the surgical procedure that Carlos witnessed, though he does not believe the healer was really doing what he seemed to be doing?

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