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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. Harner repeatedly emphasizes that not all shamanic experiences involve drugs and instead rely on what?
(a) Storytelling, praying, and daydreaming.
(b) Jumping, eating, and dreaming.
(c) Meditating, fasting, running, and self-deprivation.
(d) Drumming, chanting, singing, and symbolism.

2. Apprentice shamans sometimes report to Harner that they:
(a) Panic during the experience.
(b) Feel a sense of endless falling.
(c) Morph into other forms.
(d) See loved ones who have passed on.

3. It is typical for one or more spirits to help guide the shaman through what?
(a) A series of questions only the shaman hears.
(b) The ninth dimension.
(c) A time-honored ritual.
(d) A hidden or non-ordinary reality.

4. Who wrote "Natural Magick" in 1562?
(a) Hans Lippershey.
(b) Nicolaus Copernicus.
(c) Galileo Galilei.
(d) Giovanni Battista Porta.

5. Why does the author say dancing is an effective way to keep one's animal close?
(a) Animals are hypnotized by the dancing.
(b) Animals are attracted to movement.
(c) It exercises and honors the animal.
(d) It creates vibrant energy the animal enjoys.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Conibo access the Lowerworld?

2. In some traditions, how is a quartz crystal recharged?

3. Why does a shaman enter a shamanic state of consciousness?

4. Shamans typically utilize crystals as:

5. Harner asks aspiring shamans to refrain from:

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