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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. Shamans typically utilize crystals as:
(a) Transmitters of energy for health.
(b) Objects that pull out negative energy.
(c) Harnessers of the sun's energy.
(d) Doorways into the future.

2. During the Lakota practice of rock-seeing, a shaman considers a problem while walking through what?
(a) A bed of heated rocks.
(b) A rocky stream.
(c) A wild area.
(d) A field of boulders.

3. What are guardian spirits known as in Australia?
(a) Angelic assistant.
(b) Totem angel.
(c) Assistant totem.
(d) Spirit of assistance.

4. Harner asserts that shamanism has advanced in areas without technological innovations because:
(a) Of the need by these people to find ways to deal with survival and health issues.
(b) These people are neither distracted nor electromagnetically impaired by electronic interference.
(c) The plant world communicates better with people when there is no technological interference.
(d) Technology hasn't erased these people's ability to tap into their intuition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the purpose of rattles used during a shaman's work?

2. Why is the Jivaro shaman who helps Harner worried that the author may not be able to find tsentak?

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

4. In his guided, step-by-step instructions for a first journey, Harner instructs the aspiring shaman to eat:

5. Among the Coastal Salish, animals that become human are called what?

(see the answer key)

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