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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. Where can a shaman go to retrieve a lost power animal?
(a) The Higherworld.
(b) The Otherworld.
(c) The Powerworld.
(d) The Lowerworld.

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

3. Among some Plains Indians tribes, it is believed that those who don't have a guardian animal spirit lack what?
(a) Courage and compassion.
(b) Integrity and character.
(c) Power and life success.
(d) Strength and physical agility.

4. 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.

5. What is the most famous method of acquiring a guardian animal spirit?
(a) Astral vision.
(b) Rock seeing.
(c) Consciousness quest.
(d) Vision quest.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Jivaro tradition, the identity of a power animal is what?

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

3. After a novice receives an answer from a guardian spirit animal, what does Harner recommend he or she do?

4. Some creation myths show with the passage of time, only shamans could:

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Give a brief summary of the exercise the author presents to the reader on how to dance one's animal guardian spirit.

2. How can a shaman tell whether or not an individual has a guardian spirit?

3. What are power objects, and what are they for?

4. Where do "big dreams" come from, and what purpose do they serve?

5. In the power restoration exercise presented to the reader in Chapter 5, what typically happens when the participant goes through the tunnel and reaches the Lowerworld?

6. How do power animals first show themselves to a shaman?

7. How did Essie Parrish, a California Pomo Indian, acquire her first power song?

8. When was the book Natural Magick written, and what is it about?

9. What is the bone game?

10. What connection does a patient often have with a returned spirit animal?

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