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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. Where does Carlos decide to take Don Juan when Carlos begins to think that something is wrong with Don Juan?

2. Carlos begins to have a recollection of a time he and Don Juan were in ___________ in the state of Chihuahua.

3. Death can be seen as a challenge to live a life of ___________ in contact with intent, according to the teachings of Don Juan.

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

5. What is the best way to stalk oneself, according to the teachings of Don Juan to Carlos?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Don Juan say will happen if he and Carlos are rational about the way they approach the jaguar?

2. Where does Carlos have to store his memories of the things he has learned with Don Juan?

3. What did Carlos see when he watched the psychic healer in Mexico City, according to the story he tells Don Juan?

4. How does Don Juan describe the sort of stalking which is necessary in order to find memories again?

5. After studying sorcery for a while, what does Don Juan suddenly want to do one day, according to the teachings of Don Juan?

6. What is the explanation that Don Juan offers for the surgery that Carlos saw in Mexico City?

7. What does a sorcerer need to do in order to abandon the mirror of self-reflection, according to the teachings of Don Juan?

8. What happens in the morning after Carlos spends more time in the spot where he remembered his experience in Guaymas?

9. What signals the presence of intent, according to Don Juan during his teaching with Carlos?

10. What are the stalkers' classification of personalities, according to the teachings of Don Juan, according to the teachings of Don Juan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

In the beginning, Carlos talks about how his teacher tells him not to write down his experiences.

Part 1: Why do you think it's important to have an experience without writing about it?

Part 2: Do you think you could remember everything you learn if you weren't able to write it down?

Part 3: How do you think your experience might change if you weren't allowed to write about it?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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