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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When a power animal becomes human through a magical transformation, the animal becomes what for the shaman?
(a) The truth.
(b) The alter ego.
(c) The messenger.
(d) The deliverer.

3. A shaman will blow a spirit animal into a patient through:
(a) The forehead.
(b) The solar plexus.
(c) The chest or the back of the head.
(d) The nose or the mouth.

4. Does a guardian spirit have the freedom to leave or stay at will?
(a) It depends on the type of spirit.
(b) Only at night.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

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

6. Why do the Jivaro and other shamanic tribes believe in waking up a person gently?
(a) So that the person can remember his or her lucid dreams.
(b) To avoid scaring the person to death.
(c) To preserve the guardian spirit visions he or she received while sleeping.
(d) So that the person's power animal has the chance to return.

7. During their "dreamtime," Australian Aruntas often become what?
(a) Dolphin whales.
(b) Platypus.
(c) Kangaroos.
(d) Eagle hawks.

8. Harner indicates that a tonal animal is linked to someone's fate in what?
(a) Dream states.
(b) Pre-adolescent years.
(c) Ordinary reality.
(d) Shamanic states of consciousness.

9. On the guided power restoration journey that involves descending down a tunnel, the author cautions against encountering:
(a) Ominously voracious non-mammals.
(b) Male spirits with weapons.
(c) Weeping female spirits.
(d) Large predators with exposed teeth.

10. Among the Coastal Salish, animals that become human are called what?
(a) The One.
(b) The Human.
(c) The Indian.
(d) The Transformer.

11. While in the Lowerworld with a power animal, what does a shamanic exercise participant accomplish by shaking a rattle quickly?
(a) Hypnotizing the power animal.
(b) A deep trance state.
(c) Fending off ominous creatures.
(d) A quicker return up the tunnel.

12. For the Jivaro, where do guardian spirits reside primarily?
(a) In the chest.
(b) At the hips.
(c) In each ear.
(d) Behind the eyes.

13. According to the author, restoring power requires restoring or acquiring what?
(a) Power rock.
(b) Guardian water spirit.
(c) Guardian tree sprite.
(d) Power animal.

14. In some traditions, how is a quartz crystal recharged?
(a) Leaving it out in an intense thunderstorm.
(b) Asking a power animal to dance with it in Lowerworld.
(c) Cleansing in the ocean or a spring, then left out in the sun on the solstice.
(d) Through a three-day ceremony of incense burning and constant chanting.

15. Can non-shamans participate in shamanic rituals?
(a) Only from a distance.
(b) Yes, in some traditions.
(c) Only women.
(d) Never.

Short Answer Questions

1. A shocked power animal may do what?

2. Harner presents one shaman's drawings of the tunnel to Lowerworld. What does it look like?

3. What position does Harner recommend for a beginning shaman learning power restoration techniques?

4. Many traditions speak of the mythical past when animals could:

5. What do negative big dreams carry, according to the author?

(see the answer keys)

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