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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. How does Saceteca see?
(a) He sees.
(b) He interprets his surroundings much like we do.
(c) He sings.
(d) He dances.

2. Why was coming into contact with an ally dangerous?
(a) All of these.
(b) They are capable of trickery at the behest of the brujo to whom they are connected.
(c) They can harm someone who doesn't protect themselves.
(d) They can bring out the worst in people.

3. What did Carlos notice about the shoeshine boys' scavenging abilities?
(a) They left nothing behind.
(b) They were very thorough.
(c) All of these.
(d) They were very quick.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carlos see?

2. How big did the guardian appear to be?

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

4. What is a unit of meaning?

5. What do real people look like when you 'see' them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the guardian stop Carlos?

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

4. What was don Juan's explanation for the lights behind them?

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

6. Why couldn't Carlos articulate what he wanted to after his experience?

7. What is extremely impolite among the Yaquis?

8. What is tricky regarding allies?

9. What about Castaneda's behavior did don Genaro find amusing and why?

10. What did Benigno and Lucio say in regards to don Juan?

(see the answer keys)

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