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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 notes that in modern technology, quartz crystals are used in what?
(a) Radio transmitters and computers.
(b) Children's electronic toys.
(c) Solar-powered panels and electric cars.
(d) Atomic reactors.

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

3. The shamans among Scandinavian Laps often become what?
(a) Bears, reindeer, wolves, and fish.
(b) Moose, caribou, bears, and rabbits.
(c) Whales, fish, polar bears, and elk.
(d) Reindeer, elk, rabbits, and foxes.

4. What does Harner recommend that the aspiring shaman listen to?
(a) Flowing water.
(b) Chanting.
(c) Birds singing.
(d) Drumming.

5. What does Harner speculate about the mandala?
(a) It may represent openings to the sky or the Lowerworld.
(b) It could represent the doorway to stars and entrance to spaceships.
(c) It could hold the keys to astral time travel.
(d) It may guard coded instructions reserved for the most advanced shamans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does a guardian spirit have the freedom to leave or stay at will?

2. Why do the Jivaro and other shamanic tribes believe in waking up a person gently?

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

4. Particularly during the Inquisition, many Christian church leaders considered animal transformation to be what?

5. A shaman's quartz crystals typically are hidden from what?

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