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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Power Practices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of rapid drumming during the guided journey that Harner takes new students through?
(a) To keep the student from falling asleep during the exercise.
(b) To move the student through stages of non-ordinary reality.
(c) To help the person connect to his or her own heartbeat.
(d) To bring the person back to ordinary reality.

2. When a power animal becomes human through a magical transformation, the animal becomes what for the shaman?
(a) The deliverer.
(b) The truth.
(c) The messenger.
(d) The alter ego.

3. Who does the author quote as an expert on the subject of altered states?
(a) Author Carlos Castaneda.
(b) Anthropologist Margaret Mead.
(c) West African writer Malidoma Some.
(d) Shamanic scholar Mircea Eliade.

4. What happens to a power object when it no longer moves a person emotionally?
(a) It is incorporated into a necklace.
(b) It is returned to nature.
(c) It is buried three feet underground.
(d) It is placed inside a rattle.

5. Harner indicates that a tonal animal is linked to someone's fate in what?
(a) Pre-adolescent years.
(b) Shamanic states of consciousness.
(c) Ordinary reality.
(d) Dream states.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do power animals reveal themselves and their special powers?

2. According to Jivaro tradition, a shaman must seek out a guardian spirit how often?

3. How does a guardian spirit animal encountered in Lowerworld often communicate with the shaman?

4. Which of the following is NOT a purpose for entering a shamanic state of consciousness?

5. How might a shaman be distinguished from other medicine men?

(see the answer key)

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