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

2. What does the author encounter when he drinks maikua?
(a) Beloved pets he knew as a child.
(b) Winged benevolent beings.
(c) Dangerous creatures.
(d) A frightening emptiness.

3. What should a shaman NOT do when feeling dis-spirited?
(a) Visualize clear light.
(b) Walk into the wilderness.
(c) Listen to a drumbeat.
(d) Attempt to heal someone.

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 has not gone through the necessary rituals.
(c) Harner is not an Indian.
(d) The tsentak are extremely elusive.

5. Harner's reports of the rituals, symbols, and visions of the different tribes he observes are what?
(a) Foreign.
(b) Simplistic.
(c) Similar.
(d) Disturbing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harner indicates that a tonal animal is linked to someone's fate in what?

2. In some traditions, how is a quartz crystal recharged?

3. Through numerous examples, the author shows the commonality of experiences by shamans regardless of what?

4. Harner writes in Chapter 5 that power helps a person resist or dispel what?

5. Harner indicates that becoming a shaman involves pain, facing fears, and a willingness to:

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