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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. Harner writes in Chapter 5 that power helps a person resist or dispel what?
(a) Curses.
(b) Disease.
(c) Malignant thoughts.
(d) Low energy.

2. How do spirit helpers assist the shaman?
(a) By keeping the shaman's third eye open at all times to see alternate realities.
(b) By spying on others and reporting back to the shaman.
(c) By helping the shaman engage in divination of the past, present, and future.
(d) By whispering truths into the shaman's otherworldly ears.

3. How do power animals reveal themselves and their special powers?
(a) By singing a coded song understandable only to shamans.
(b) Either by a ghostly apparition or through blinding light.
(c) By playing on the recipient's childhood fears.
(d) Either by speaking or by appearing in an abnormal way.

4. In rock-seeing, a shaman takes two rocks, sits with them, poses a question, and then examines the stones for what?
(a) Signs that the stones have transformed during the session.
(b) Living creatures or features that provide clues regarding answers.
(c) Words temporarily appearing on the surface pointing to an answer.
(d) Traces of minerals that can be used for healing rituals.

5. With the help of spirit helpers and two tsentak inside his mouth, the shaman can help the patient by:
(a) Smoking out the intruder.
(b) Swallowing the intruder.
(c) Vomiting out the intruder.
(d) Frightening the intruder out.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the exercise Harner gives the reader for dancing one's animal guardian spirit, what is the participant asked to do?

2. Shamans from Venezuela, North America, Australia, and other regions all report having similar what?

3. In a drug-induced vision, Harner sees demons as:

4. A shaman can be open to attacks when what is not present?

5. Why does Harner state that it doesn't matter whether the animal that has appeared is fierce or gentle?

(see the answer key)

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