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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. After a journey that lasts several days in the jungle with his companions, Harner is taken where?
(a) Beneath a waterfall for a mystical experience.
(b) On another journey to experience higher levels of reality.
(c) To the source of the Amazon to meet the highest shaman.
(d) To a ledge overlooking an enchanted valley.

2. During their "dreamtime," Australian Aruntas often become what?
(a) Kangaroos.
(b) Dolphin whales.
(c) Eagle hawks.
(d) Platypus.

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

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

5. The author shows that all religious traditions share:
(a) Similarities in styles of worship.
(b) A mistrust of shamans and mysticism.
(c) Mystical and symbolic similarities.
(d) One common origin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In stories of Coyote or Raven, for example, the shaman's connection with the guardian spirit is with what?

2. Why does Harner include the examples of the Lakota Sioux and Coast Salish tribes for Westerners in particular?

3. Harner presents one shaman's drawings of the tunnel to Lowerworld. What does it look like?

4. Among other sensations in his experience with the Conibo, Harner experiences a sense of flying inside what?

5. What does Harner recommend that the aspiring shaman listen to?

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