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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Matus does not want a description of Castaneda's experience because he has not traveled anywhere or ______________.
(a) Learned a lesson.
(b) Done anything special.
(c) Gotten into anything.
(d) Flown.

2. Mescalito has given a clear lesson that there is only one path and one world of ____________.
(a) Answers.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Truth.
(d) Understanding.

3. Matus says that the smoke is ______ that the smoker must be strong.
(a) So strong.
(b) So daring.
(c) So weak.
(d) So truthful.

4. What does Castaneda do when he walks out into the field of peyote on the last night of the ceremony?
(a) Promises to help the lizards.
(b) Runs into the water.
(c) Sings to the plants.
(d) Hides by a cactus.

5. What must like Castaneda very much because of where Castaneda placed the paste?
(a) Peyote.
(b) Devil's weed.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Mescalito.

6. In what direction are the crows going to fly, according to what Castaneda's vision told him?
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) East.
(d) West.

7. _________ is not moody or petty, so the order of collection is unimportant, but the mixture must be exact.
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Truth.

8. Normally, says Matus, only great _________ return from such journeys as Castaneda had.
(a) Shape shifters.
(b) Brujos.
(c) Shamans.
(d) Warriors.

9. What does Castaneda feel like doing when he goes to where his plant is?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Writing.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Singing.

10. What would have happened to Castaneda had he moved from his beneficial spot on the porch?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His soul would have been taken away for good.
(c) Matus isn't sure.
(d) He would have won the battle.

11. Castaneda waits all day for Matus to mention something about _____________.
(a) Death.
(b) Flying.
(c) God.
(d) Drugs.

12. Whatever the song Castaneda has learned is for the _____________ to clarify.
(a) Pipe.
(b) Protector.
(c) Benefactor.
(d) Book.

13. What does Matus mix with the plant parts, just as his benefactor had him do?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Lard.
(c) Sand.
(d) Grass.

14. Castaneda remembers a vision of ___________ tossing him in the air.
(a) H.
(b) Mescalito.
(c) Jim.
(d) Matus.

15. What does Castaneda circle in order to determine its position?
(a) Matus.
(b) Porch.
(c) Pole.
(d) Tent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Matus begins to talk about smoke as an ___________ during his third year with Castaneda.

2. Crows see one another as _____ rather than seeing each other as black.

3. What has Castaneda become more familiar with at every meeting?

4. What does Matus diagnose as being the problem with Castaneda?

5. It is clear Mescalito approves of Castaneda because he appears to Castaneda __________ times.

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