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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Power Animals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Jivaro shaman help Harner acquire?
(a) Spirit helpers.
(b) Advanced intuition.
(c) The ability to see beyond.
(d) Tree guides.

2. Can non-shamans participate in shamanic rituals?
(a) Only from a distance.
(b) Yes, in some traditions.
(c) Never.
(d) Only women.

3. In the cultures Harner studies, shamans are primarily:
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Men.
(d) Grandmothers.

4. Why is the Jivaro shaman who helps Harner worried that the author may not be able to find tsentak?
(a) Harner is not an Indian.
(b) Harner has not gone through the necessary rituals.
(c) The tsentak are extremely elusive.
(d) Finding tsentak is an advanced shamanic practice.

5. One person who tried Harner's step-by-step guided journey exercise reported bringing back what by accident?
(a) A beneficial being.
(b) A healing code.
(c) A message for a friend.
(d) A monkey spirit guide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT help a shaman enter a shamanic state of consciousness?

2. What are the tsentak?

3. Shamans believe that lethargic, sick adults can be made well by what?

4. When a power animal becomes human through a magical transformation, the animal becomes what for the shaman?

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

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