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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. What is Don Juan dressed in when he is in Durango during the story he tells Carlos of his impeccability?

2. 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?

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

4. Carlos begins to notice that his mind switches back and forth between mental __________ and mental fatigue as he is talking with Don Juan.

5. Man __________ find themselves stuck between being average men and sorcerers, though they all know they are moving toward being sorcerers.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Carlos become upset when he and Don Juan return to Don Juan's house?

2. Don Juan emphasizes that the first principle of sorcery is what, even though it is the thing that happens first?

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

4. What does Don Juan say is the best quality of death, aside from giving a person to stalk themselves?

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

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

7. What does Carlos remember about the time that Don Juan was talking about moving the assemblage point?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Don Juan admits that it is difficult to grasp the abstract concepts he is teaching.

Part 1: Do you think it's possible to teach abstract concepts?

Part 2: How do you think Don Juan could make the learning easier for Carlos?

Part 3: Why do you think the lessons that Don Juan has to share are abstract?

Essay Topic 2

One of the first goals of a nagual is to master their intent, or the mental aims of the universe.

Part 1: Why do you think intent is the first step a person needs to take when they want to be a nagual?

Part 2: Do you have intentions in your life right now? What might they be?

Part 3: How do you think one's actions change when a person has an intent vs. when they don't have an intent?

Essay Topic 3

In many of the stories of the naguals, it seems they needed to have a moment of suffering before being ready to train.

Part 1: Do you think suffering is necessary in order to ready a person for learning to be a sorcerer?

Part 2: What can suffering teach a person about themselves?

Part 3: Why do you think so many powerful people have had to go through suffering?

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