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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years was Don Juan fortunate to spend with his teacher, according to his own recollections?

2. How many moods does Don Juan describe when he is talking about stalking one's self?

3. Belisario says that in order for Don Juan to escape, he needs to follow him to _____________ and become a sorcerer.

4. What did Elias think about the man who was seducing a woman's servant in the field?

5. There is an unmeasurable, indescribable force that sorcerers call _________, according to the book.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Don Juan emphasize about understanding the abstract cores, though this confuses Carlos?

2. Why should sorcerers have clear memories of crossing over into the new perpetual threshold?

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

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

5. While the sorcerer is invited to enter the edifice intent builds, what/who forces entry?

6. What is the relationship between humans and the energy fields which make up the world, according to the teachings of Don Juan?

7. What happened after Don Juan was imprisoned on a hacienda, but then attempts to escape from this situation?

8. What does Spirit do when it has trouble reestablishing link with humans and their intent?

9. What happens when Don Juan takes Carlos to meet with two men in Nogales?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It's a given in the story that the world is made up of energy and that these fields of energy impact the actions of those who live in the world.

Part 1: Do you agree that the world is made up of energy fields?

Part 2: How do you think the world might change if there was no concept of energy in the world?

Part 3: Why do you think energy fields are a concept which can be understood by Carlos? Or isn't this understandable for him?

Essay Topic 2

The knock of the spirit forces entry into the idea of intent, according to Don Juan's teachings.

Part 1: How do you think that the spirit might knock a person?

Part 2: Why do you think it's intent which builds the edifice in which a person must enter?

Part 3: What do you think this lesson has to teach someone in the modern world?

Essay Topic 3

The excess energy of the woman seems to be stronger than the man with whom she is having a sexual encounter.

Part 1: Why do you think the woman was the one with all of the extra energy in this scene?

Part 2: Do you think that women might be powerful sorcerers as well?

Part 3: Do you think men or women are more powerful in terms of being naguals and sorcerers?

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