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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 is NOT one of the three facets of knowledge one must have in order to be a seer?
(a) Walking.
(b) Intent.
(c) Stalking.
(d) Awareness.

2. The ___________ is draining, according to Don Juan as he talks to Carlos in his lessons with him.
(a) Known.
(b) Believed.
(c) Unknowable.
(d) Unknown.

3. What ends up killing the foreman when he is trying to go after Don Juan during his time at the mill?
(a) Stallion.
(b) Cow.
(c) Large Eagle.
(d) Snake.

4. Who is able to shift the assemblage point of the narrator only because he stops his internal dialogue?
(a) Pablito.
(b) Don Genaro.
(c) Don Juan.
(d) Carlos.

5. ____________ is weakened by the shift in his assemblage point during this lesson.
(a) La Gorda.
(b) Carlos.
(c) Don Juan.
(d) Don Genaro.

Short Answer Questions

1. Warriors are preparing for ______________, and not death, according to Don Juan when Carlos asks him that question.

2. How does Don Juan gain the help of the woman of the house where he works with his petty tyrant?

3. Talking about petty tyrants was only an introduction to the lesson on the topic of ___________, according to Don Juan.

4. ___________ beings are not the only creatures that possess life, according to the lessons of Don Juan.

5. The Eagle's ___________ are commands of which men are able to only sense a small portion, according to Don Juan.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Don Genaro help to spur on Carlos into a heightened state of awareness?

2. What do Don Juan and Don Genaro debate when they see that Carlos seems melancholic?

3. What is the explanation for the fatigue which Carlos is feeling after his experience with Don Genaro and Don Juan?

4. Don Juan explains that there are two sides of awareness in the world. What are the two sides of awareness?

5. What does Don Juan believe the reason for the existence of sentient beings actually is, and the narrator does not argue the point?

6. Why is the unknowable draining for new seers who have come to the path of being a student?

7. What does Don Genaro find humorous about the various side of the narrator when they are all sitting at Don Genaro's house?

8. Don Juan tells Carlos that men perceive a world of objects, but what is the reality of this perception in relation to emanation?

9. Why doesn't Don Genaro care about the explanations of things which are being taught to Carlos?

10. How might one describe the idea of the nagual's blow, according to the teachings of Don Juan in the story?

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