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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. After a shaman successfully retrieves a patient's power animal from the Lowerworld, what's the next step?
(a) Asking the power animal to swallow the patient.
(b) Having the patient swallow the animal.
(c) Placing the animal on the patient's chest.
(d) Waiting for the animal to befriend the patient.

2. What is the most famous method of acquiring a guardian animal spirit?
(a) Vision quest.
(b) Consciousness quest.
(c) Astral vision.
(d) Rock seeing.

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

4. Why is Harner afraid to take maikua?
(a) It is a poison that affects the liver and impairs eyesight.
(b) Its bitterness leaves his mouth dry and burns his throat.
(c) Nobody has ever taken maikua and lived to tell about it.
(d) He's heard stories of death and madness that result from taking it.

5. Why does Harner state that it doesn't matter whether the animal that has appeared is fierce or gentle?
(a) The animal's qualities reflect the inner needs of the shaman.
(b) Guardians are bound by oath to never harm humans.
(c) The animal is merely a projection of the participant's imagination.
(d) As sources of power, guardians do not harm the possessor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Jivaro see in someone who possesses a guardian?

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

3. How might a shaman be distinguished from other medicine men?

4. Which of the following is NOT a purpose for entering a shamanic state of consciousness?

5. Harner repeatedly emphasizes that not all shamanic experiences involve drugs and instead rely on what?

(see the answer key)

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