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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Castaneda fall asleep by when he begins to sense the energies of the porch?
(a) Shoe.
(b) Jacket.
(c) Steps.
(d) Door.

2. What sweetens the smoke that Matus and Castaneda are preparing?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Herbs.
(c) Pebbles.
(d) Flowers.

3. Matus carefully repeats this phrase four times: _________ will make you see and understand things about which no human being could possibly enlighten you.
(a) A star.
(b) A plant.
(c) Animals.
(d) An ally.

4. What does Diablero mean, as Matus defines it in the course of the story?
(a) Plant guide.
(b) Shape shifter.
(c) Dog ally.
(d) Medicine man.

5. Who carefully scrubs the roots, stems, and leaves when they are done gathering plants from the canyons?
(a) La Carmelita.
(b) No one.
(c) Matus.
(d) Castaneda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Matus dares Castaneda to meet __________ by having him perform a particular test.

2. What is repulsing and frightening to him in one of the places he has marked?

3. What does he put on the place to mark the spot where his vision changes?

4. What is the year that Matus says he was born in?

5. What kind of plants do Matus and Castaneda begin to father in the canyons?

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