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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Shamanic Journey: Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Way of the Shaman," the author shows similarities between:
(a) Once dominant spiritual belief systems.
(b) Various shamanic spiritual belief systems.
(c) Real and fake shamans.
(d) Younger and older shamans.

2. 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.

3. Harner's reports of the rituals, symbols, and visions of the different tribes he observes are what?
(a) Foreign.
(b) Disturbing.
(c) Similar.
(d) Simplistic.

4. How does Harner end his first shamanic journey exercise for the reader?
(a) Wolf howl.
(b) Prolonged string vibration.
(c) Sound of a bell.
(d) Four sharp strikes.

5. Why does a shaman enter a shamanic state of consciousness?
(a) For clarity and balance.
(b) To prove to the elders that he or she is a shaman.
(c) To practice astral travel.
(d) For a serious, specific purpose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the tsentak?

2. On his or her first guided journey, the shaman student is asked by Harner to visualize what?

3. How is a shamanic state of consciousness, or SSC, achieved?

4. Who does the author quote as an expert on the subject of altered states?

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

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