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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Master shamans focus on a triumvirate which is composed of what?
(a) Emotions, thoughts, and breath work.
(b) The heart, brain, and lungs.
(c) Virtues, strength, and vitality.
(d) Knowledge, power, and healing.

4. How does Harner end his first shamanic journey exercise for the reader?
(a) Wolf howl.
(b) Prolonged string vibration.
(c) Four sharp strikes.
(d) Sound of a bell.

5. 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 enabling the shaman to spiritually enter the patient's body and physically fix the problem.
(c) By merging the collective thoughts of everyone present.
(d) By allowing ghost healers to work through the shaman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do spirit helpers assist the shaman?

2. When drugs are involved in Shaman practices, who takes them?

3. If SSC stands for shamanic state of consciousness, what does OSC stand for?

4. What does Harner compare his near-death experience with the Conibo to?

5. Why might a shaman work in darkness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Harner say that a shaman can be distinguished from other medicine men?

2. Harner emphasizes in Chapter 1 that becoming a shaman involves what?

3. Discuss what Harner says about the humility of shamanism?

4. Who is Akachu, and how does he help Harner?

5. In the step-by-step instructions for going on a first shamanic journey that the author supplies for the reader in Chapter 2, how does he ask the participant to prepare?

6. Describe Harner's journey with Akachu.

7. Describe the roles of drumming and rattling in a shaman's work.

8. Describe the tunnel a shaman utilizes to journey into the Lowerworld.

9. Summarize the first shamanic journey exercise presented to the reader in Chapter 2.

10. What is the practice of rock-seeing?

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