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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Carlos want to discuss?
(a) Cemeteries and Mortuaries of the World.
(b) The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
(c) The European Book of the Dead.
(d) The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

2. What did the holes and gaps in the sounds show Carlos?
(a) The location of the water spirit.
(b) The location of his spirit catcher.
(c) None of these.
(d) Where he should meet his ally.

3. What should scare Carlos, according to don Juan?
(a) The idea of living a mediocre life.
(b) The idea of never finding the world.
(c) The idea of doing the same thing for the rest of his life.
(d) The idea of never seeing.

4. What is Carlos chained to?
(a) His notes.
(b) His ally.
(c) His rationalizations.
(d) His reason.

5. When does the guardian become nothing?
(a) When Carlos no longer reacts to it.
(b) When Carlos ignores it.
(c) When Carlos admits to himself that the guardian has no control over him.
(d) When Carlos feels nothing towards it.

6. What did Carlos see when he had opened his eyes after focusing on the sound?
(a) A hole in a tree.
(b) A hole in a rock.
(c) A hole in the hillside.
(d) A hole in the ground.

7. What was don Juan doing with the string?
(a) Summoning the rain.
(b) Catching the spirit of the watering hole.
(c) None of these.
(d) Scaring Carlos.

8. " To meet an ally without being prepared is like...."?
(a) "Attacking a lion with your farts".
(b) "Attacking a lion with your fears".
(c) "Meeting a friend on a really bad day".
(d) "Serving coffee to the Queen of England".

9. What did don Juan see when he looked into Carlos?
(a) Carlos as a child crying.
(b) None of these.
(c) A little girl with a button nose that was crying,
(d) A little boy with a button nose that was crying.

10. What does don Juan explain that Carlos must do in order to achieve his next step?
(a) Live like a warrior.
(b) Overcome the guardian.
(c) Harness the little smoke as an ally.
(d) Live like an indian.

11. What is don Juan's spirit catcher?
(a) A goat.
(b) A serpent.
(c) A wild boar.
(d) A wildebeest.

12. What was in the field?
(a) A vulture.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A Mexican peasant farmer.
(d) A rabbit.

13. What was the hardest thing for Castaneda to stop doing?
(a) Thinking too much.
(b) None of these.
(c) Talking to himself.
(d) Listening to himself think.

14. What did Carlos use to light the pipe?
(a) A coal.
(b) Twigs.
(c) A lighter.
(d) Matches.

15. How are don Juan and Carlos different when referring to their childhoods?
(a) Don Juan wasn't violent; Carlos was.
(b) Carlos was a nicer boy than don Juan.
(c) All of these.
(d) Don Juan wasn't involved with being mean.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Carlos lose sight of don Genaro on the mountain?

2. What color was Carlos when he had come out of the water?

3. What was always a touchy subject for Carlos?

4. What does the smoke give the men of knowledge?

5. What was the item that don Juan had told to put inside the witch?

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