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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Journey to Restore Power.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harner recommend to a shaman student if he or she meets frightening creatures, such as fanged serpents or fish with teeth?
(a) Close your eyes, count to three, and continue forward if the creature has disappeared.
(b) Show no fear and proceed with caution.
(c) Sing a power song and ask for protection.
(d) Come back up the tunnel and try again later.

2. When the shaman is in an altered state, how does healing take place?
(a) By merging the collective thoughts of everyone present.
(b) By enabling the shaman to spiritually enter the patient's body and physically fix the problem.
(c) By allowing ghost healers to work through the shaman.
(d) By restoring beneficial power or removing harmful power from the patient.

3. Shaman's do not challenge the validity of someone else's what?
(a) Authentic first-hand experience.
(b) Healing methods.
(c) Claims of being a shaman.
(d) Drug addiction.

4. What must the shaman feed his spirit helpers?
(a) Ground allspice.
(b) Vanilla beans.
(c) Coffee nectar.
(d) Tobacco water.

5. The author emphasizes that not all tribes use what in their shamanic practices?
(a) Chants.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Shamans.
(d) Rituals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After a shaman successfully retrieves a patient's power animal from the Lowerworld, what's the next step?

3. What is the most famous method of acquiring a guardian animal spirit?

4. The shamans among Scandinavian Laps often become what?

5. Who wrote "Natural Magick" in 1562?

(see the answer key)

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