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

2. 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.

3. Why is the Jivaro shaman who helps Harner worried that the author may not be able to find tsentak?
(a) Harner has not gone through the necessary rituals.
(b) Finding tsentak is an advanced shamanic practice.
(c) Harner is not an Indian.
(d) The tsentak are extremely elusive.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To learn more about shamanism, what does Harner do?

3. Harner asserts that shamanism transcends any particular what?

4. In the cultures Harner studies, shamans are primarily:

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Harner's journey with Akachu.

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

3. How old is shamanism, and what cultures have best preserved this practice?

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

5. What is the participant of the exercise in Chapter 2 instructed regarding the end of the journey?

6. 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?

7. Describe Harner's experience of spiritually going to a cave beneath a waterfall with a Jivaro shaman.

8. How and why is a shamanic state of consciousness (SSC) achieved?

9. What does Akachu question when he and Harner are getting to know each other?

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

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