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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of rapid drumming during the guided journey that Harner takes new students through?
(a) To help the person connect to his or her own heartbeat.
(b) To keep the student from falling asleep during the exercise.
(c) To move the student through stages of non-ordinary reality.
(d) To bring the person back to ordinary reality.

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

3. Harner indicates that becoming a shaman involves pain, facing fears, and a willingness to:
(a) Consume exotic foods.
(b) Cross dangerous jungles.
(c) Leave behind all that one holds near and dear.
(d) Confront the unknown.

4. Shaman's do not challenge the validity of someone else's what?
(a) Claims of being a shaman.
(b) Authentic first-hand experience.
(c) Drug addiction.
(d) Healing methods.

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

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

7. In early experiences with the Conibo, Harner hears rushing:
(a) Trains.
(b) Wind.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Water.

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

9. While working, why must a shaman remain lightly connected to the material environment?
(a) Because of having to move between realities.
(b) To harness the power of nature.
(c) To incorporate the properties of the material world into the cure.
(d) Because of the shaman's physical requirements.

10. When the shaman is in an altered state, how does healing take place?
(a) By restoring beneficial power or removing harmful power from the patient.
(b) By merging the collective thoughts of everyone present.
(c) By enabling the shaman to spiritually enter the patient's body and physically fix the problem.
(d) By allowing ghost healers to work through the shaman.

11. Among other sensations in his experience with the Conibo, Harner experiences a sense of flying inside what?
(a) A water well.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A zero-gravity orb.
(d) A spaceship.

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

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

14. Harner writes that in non-ordinary reality, spirit helpers appear as what?
(a) People once known who have passed on.
(b) Animals, including jaguars, monkeys, and butterflies.
(c) Familiar plants and flowers.
(d) Religious deities.

15. Which of the following does NOT help a shaman enter a shamanic state of consciousness?
(a) Rattles.
(b) Songs.
(c) Drums.
(d) Tattoos.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a journey that lasts several days in the jungle with his companions, Harner is taken where?

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

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

4. The author states that the humility in shamanism lies in what?

5. According to the author, who has a guardian spirit, whether recognized or not?

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