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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. La Gorda tells Carlos that women are more adept at letting the world collapse because their is a crack they can get through while ______.
(a) Giving birth.
(b) Ovulating.
(c) Menstruating.
(d) Breathing.

2. After the beings left the house the sisters re-arranged their shawls. ______ were pushed to the floor where they began strange movements.
(a) Josefina and Rosa.
(b) Lidia and Josefina.
(c) Josefina and La Gorda.
(d) Lidia and Rosa.

3. According to the book, the nagual referred to the moment when the second attention hooked onto something as _____.
(a) Stopping the world.
(b) Starting the world.
(c) Stopping the dance.
(d) Stopping time.

4. The sisters showed Carlos how to energize himself by gazing at _____ with half closed eyes.
(a) The hills.
(b) The clouds.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

5. Carlos asks Pablito if their bodies really jumped into the _____ the last time that he saw Don Juan and Don Genaro.
(a) Hole.
(b) Ocean.
(c) Valley.
(d) Abyss.

Short Answer Questions

1. La Gorda informs Carlos that their last 'appointment with power' will have to do with the sisters showing him their art, the art of ______.

2. Nestor reports that as Carlos was running to the edge of the abyss, he grabbed onto Pablito's ______ which changed the luminosity of both.

3. Don Juan states that the attention of the _____ is inside always pushing out and thus causing separation of the layers.

4. Genaro was able to 'capture' Pablito by offering to make him a ______ so that he would be successful with women.

5. The sisters were taught ______ as a way to keep the layers pressed together and eventually tie the attentions together.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is supposed to happen when all of the apprentices finally lose their form? What will happen to Carlos?

2. Why does Carlos miss the explanations of Don Juan, according to his own learning process?

3. What are the details of humans which make them more vulnerable to death?

4. What do the women need now that they have lost their old purpose, now that Carlos has decided to stay?

5. Why can't six of the apprentices shake off their human forms, according to the story?

6. Why does La Gorda see Don Juan as being cruel in the way that he lives and the way that he teaches?

7. In order to energize for a long day, what does La Gorda decide to show Carlos how to do?

8. What will happen when Carlos returns after going away to contemplate his two bouts as omens?

9. Why does Pablito make a clothing booth bigger while he is filling in building clothing booths?

10. Because Carlos is like the Genaros in luminosity, what should he not believe?

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