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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. After a journey that lasts several days in the jungle with his companions, Harner is taken where?
(a) To the source of the Amazon to meet the highest shaman.
(b) On another journey to experience higher levels of reality.
(c) To a ledge overlooking an enchanted valley.
(d) Beneath a waterfall for a mystical experience.

2. What does Harner recommend that the aspiring shaman listen to?
(a) Drumming.
(b) Birds singing.
(c) Flowing water.
(d) Chanting.

3. What does the author tell an aspiring shaman to do upon returning from his or her first journey?
(a) Drink a glass of water.
(b) Go to sleep.
(c) Describe the journey aloud.
(d) Immediately stand and walk around.

4. If SSC stands for shamanic state of consciousness, what does OSC stand for?
(a) Other-worldly shamanic consciousness.
(b) Ordinary state of consciousness.
(c) Orthogonal state of consciousness.
(d) Ordinary shamanic consciousness.

5. The author states that the humility in shamanism lies in what?
(a) The shaman-patient relationship.
(b) The number of spirit guides who choose a particular shaman.
(c) The manner in which shamans speak to new and old souls.
(d) The reverence shamans feel towards nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harner suggest is the purpose of songs during a shamanic journey?

2. Harner writes that in non-ordinary reality, spirit helpers appear as what?

3. When the shaman is in an altered state, how does healing take place?

4. On his or her first guided journey, the shaman student is asked by Harner to visualize what?

5. How does the author describe his world during a shamanic state of consciousness?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why does the author find it encouraging for Westerners that not all tribes use drugs in their shamanic practices?

4. Explain the connection between an individual and his or her guardian spirit.

5. What are other names the author mentions for guardian spirits, and what cultures call them by these alternate names?

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

7. What are some of the similarities Harner notes in first-hand shamanic experiences reported by middle-class Americans?

8. How does a shaman take care of his or her tsentak?

9. Describe the spirit helpers known as tsentak.

10. Harner says that apprentice shamans report similarities in how they get out of difficulties. What are some of the difficulties he mentions?

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