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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 color of yellow was the sky?
(a) Fluorescent yellow.
(b) Canary.
(c) Sulfurous.
(d) Pale yellow.

2. What color was the light that emanated from the men?
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Gold.
(d) Pink.

3. What was it that made don Juan laugh?
(a) He did a funny dance.
(b) He was unable to eat his soup.
(c) All of these.
(d) Carlos was using a twig to get vegetables into his mouth.

4. Why can't Carlos understand about controlled folly?
(a) He is trying to think about it and it doesn't jive with his thought pattern.
(b) He is thinking too much in general.
(c) He is looking too deep into the idea, and not just accepting it as is.
(d) All of these.

5. What was the first thing Carlos saw on the mat?
(a) A gnat.
(b) A bee.
(c) A fly.
(d) A spider.

Short Answer Questions

1. What brought both Carlos and don Juan back to their apprenticeships?

2. How many peyote buttons did Eligio chew?

3. How did don Juan treat Carlos' experience at the mitote?

4. What did the guardian warn Carlos not to do?

5. What surprised Carlos in regard to don Genaro?

Short Essay Questions

1. Provide an explanation as to why a man of knowledge is vastly valued profession for Carlos.

2. What could the guardian do if it got angry?

3. What was don Juan's task as a practitioner?

4. Why did the guardian stop Carlos?

5. What is the difference between the first and second time Carlos smoked?

6. What was the only important thing, according to don Juan, about Carlos' experience?

7. Why did Carlos leave his apprenticeship with don Juan?

8. What was the confusion regarding allies and the smoke?

9. What does don Juan say about Carlos' progress?

10. Why did don Genaro repeat the sitting on his head feat so frequently?

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