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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 is the profession of Carlos which is why he is working with Don Juan and trying to learn more about him?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Anthropologist.
(c) Writer.
(d) Scientist.

2. Men do not use their energies to help achieve _________ because, according to Don Juan, they are bogged down by the vagaries of life.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Peace.
(c) Truth.
(d) Honesty.

3. ___________ is the procedure by which a person can directly connect with the powers of intent and with the shift in perception.
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Sorcerey.
(d) Apprenticeship.

4. Carlos wonders whether intent is _________, though Don Juan dismisses this idea immediately.
(a) Heaven.
(b) Practical.
(c) Magic.
(d) God.

5. Don Juan emphasizes the _______ in order to get a point of reference to examine intention, according to the book.
(a) Past.
(b) Truth.
(c) Present.
(d) Future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two men do with Carlos when he arrives at their house with Don Juan?

2. Understanding the __________ means moving beyond the comprehensible, according to the teaching of Don Juan, but Carlos is confused.

3. Sorcery is the ability to use energy fields that area not used with ordinary ___________, according to the story.

4. Carlos realizes what the definition of intent is, but realizes it can not be communicated in _________.

5. Carlos is told that his problem is that he is modern and relying on the aberrations of _____________ in his life.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the abstract cores which Don Juan begins to teach to Carlos during this section?

2. What did Elias realize about the woman when she was walking away from the man, according to the teachings of Don Juan?

3. What does Don Juan tell Carlos his problem is in relation to spirit?

4. What are the four moods of stalking, according to the book's teachings from Don Juan?

5. What happens when a spirit sets up a lure for a nagual to an apprentice, according to Don Juan?

6. What was the purpose of Carlos and Don Juan going to the cave, according to the writings in the book?

7. Describe the monstrous man that Don Juan saw when Belisario and his wife took him in, according to the teachings of Don Juan.

8. What is the purpose of every act of a nagual, according to the teachings of Don Juan?

9. What do sorcerers need to do in order to revive man's link with intent and spirit?

10. Why could Julian convert himself into a number of different types of people, according to Don Juan?

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