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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Extracting Harmful Intrusions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are guardian spirits called in Siberia?
(a) Guardian angels.
(b) Angelic beings.
(c) Warning spirits.
(d) Tutelary spirits.

2. Harner cautions that extracting intrusions should be done only by:
(a) Those who were mentored by the highest-level shamans.
(b) Female shamans who are not pregnant.
(c) Serious shamans who've mastered the shamanic journey.
(d) Male shamans over the age of fifty.

3. A shaman immediately expels an intruder into a basket of:
(a) Wheat.
(b) Sand or water.
(c) Corn.
(d) Rocks or shells.

4. What does Harner recommend to a shaman student if he or she meets frightening creatures, such as fanged serpents or fish with teeth?
(a) Close your eyes, count to three, and continue forward if the creature has disappeared.
(b) Show no fear and proceed with caution.
(c) Sing a power song and ask for protection.
(d) Come back up the tunnel and try again later.

5. What does the Jivaro shaman give to Harner to drink?
(a) A substance made from the datura plant.
(b) Fermented coconut milk.
(c) Water from a mystical underground spring.
(d) The juice of the cacao plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. An especially powerful type of power object is the quartz crystal, which a shaman often associates with:

2. With the help of spirit helpers and two tsentak inside his mouth, the shaman can help the patient by:

3. In his attempt to find spirit helpers with the assistance of a Jivaro shaman from Ecuador, what does the author do?

4. Shamans believe that lethargic, sick adults can be made well by what?

5. In the cultures Harner studies, shamans are primarily:

(see the answer key)

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