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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Power Practices.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Places the stones in his or her healing pouch.
(b) Washes the stones in a stream and blesses them.
(c) Thanks the stones and returns them to their proper places.
(d) Drops the stones and reads information from their resting positions.

2. How do shamans use their guardian spirits?
(a) Through trickery.
(b) In supplication.
(c) In passing.
(d) Actively.

3. Apprentice shamans sometimes report to Harner that they:
(a) Panic during the experience.
(b) Feel a sense of endless falling.
(c) See loved ones who have passed on.
(d) Morph into other forms.

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

5. Harner claims that when he shared his vision of dragon-like creatures that appeared from outer space with another shaman, that person:
(a) Immediately recognized the creatures.
(b) Warned Harner to stay away from the creatures.
(c) Did not understand the significance of the creatures.
(d) Explained the creatures represent suppressed desires.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Shamans pass through what kind of planes?

3. If SSC stands for shamanic state of consciousness, what does OSC stand for?

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

5. What does the Jivaro shaman help Harner acquire?

(see the answer key)

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