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

2. How do spirit helpers assist the shaman?
(a) By helping the shaman engage in divination of the past, present, and future.
(b) By whispering truths into the shaman's otherworldly ears.
(c) By keeping the shaman's third eye open at all times to see alternate realities.
(d) By spying on others and reporting back to the shaman.

3. Harner repeatedly emphasizes that not all shamanic experiences involve drugs and instead rely on what?
(a) Drumming, chanting, singing, and symbolism.
(b) Jumping, eating, and dreaming.
(c) Storytelling, praying, and daydreaming.
(d) Meditating, fasting, running, and self-deprivation.

4. How is a shamanic state of consciousness, or SSC, achieved?
(a) By drinking nettle tea and fasting for five days.
(b) By calling upon spirit guides to pull the shaman's spirit out of the body and hurl it to the heavens.
(c) By entering a trance state and using methods of cosmic geography and nonordinary reality.
(d) By chanting songs passed down by tribal peoples and drinking fermented coffee.

5. It is typical for one or more spirits to help guide the shaman through what?
(a) A hidden or non-ordinary reality.
(b) The ninth dimension.
(c) A series of questions only the shaman hears.
(d) A time-honored ritual.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the conclusion of the rock-seeing process, after the shaman turns the stones around and examines all sides, what does the shaman do?

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

3. Master shamans focus on a triumvirate which is composed of what?

4. When a shaman delivers the spirit of a power animal into the patient, he or she also:

5. During the Lakota practice of rock-seeing, a shaman considers a problem while walking through what?

(see the answer key)

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