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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 was don Juan's intention?
(a) To bring enlightenment to Lucio.
(b) To convince Lucio's friends that peyote was a sane, and wondrous experience.
(c) None of these.
(d) To encourage Lucio to do peyote and find his way.

2. It is not possible to bewitch someone to invoke ______________.
(a) A lack of motor skills.
(b) Harmlessness.
(c) Courage.
(d) Sickness.

3. What did the guardian warn Carlos not to do?
(a) Attempt to devalue it.
(b) Attempt to pass it.
(c) Attempt to 'see' it any further.
(d) None of these.

4. What was the definition of stranger?
(a) Someone who couldn't interpret their experience for themselves.
(b) Someone who lacked the ability to make intelligent interpretations of the units of meaning.
(c) All of these.
(d) Someone who didn't understand the properties of psychotropic plants.

5. What is wrong with Carlos, and what is the problem?
(a) He has been away too long.
(b) He is too fat.
(c) He has lost too much weight.
(d) He has gotten soft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disturbed Carlos?

2. What does a man look like when a person can actually 'see' him?

3. What animal is the guardian?

4. Where did don Genaro take the group to?

5. What could a master sorcerer do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How must someone approach Mescalito?

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

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

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

5. What is the difference between a stranger and a practitioner?

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

7. What does don Juan point out in regards to Carlos' view of the shoeshine boys?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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