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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. Who calls Carlos a petty, wasteful, opinionated, coercive, short tempered, and conceited man in the course of the story?
(a) Elias.
(b) Don Matus.
(c) Julian.
(d) Don Juan.

2. What does Don Juan continue to see even though the others in the house can not, so Julian says that he needs to stay?
(a) His dead wife.
(b) The peyote spirit.
(c) Monster.
(d) Ashes.

3. When you stalk yourself, Don Juan says, you ________ yourself into a new state of awareness.
(a) Jolt.
(b) Shake.
(c) Shock.
(d) Push.

4. Carlos describes to Don Juan that he feels he has lost his _________ as a person after this lesson with Don Juan.
(a) Memory.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Solidity.
(d) Power.

5. What is Don Juan dressed in when he is in Durango during the story he tells Carlos of his impeccability?
(a) Men's clothing.
(b) A sheet.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Women's clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the story that Carlos tells Don Juan when he is asked to talk about his childhood? Carlos used to be light and agile when he played _____________.

2. What is the less that Carlos can not recall, and this makes him upset that he can not recall the lesson at all?

3. _________ is not an enemy as many people like to believe that it is, according to Don Juan in the story.

4. Man's __________reaches its limits when the action from #104 is taken, according to the teachings of Don Juan.

5. Sorcerers, according to Don Juan, only _________ when they have to, or so he tells Carlos in the story.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the explanation that Don Juan offers for the surgery that Carlos saw in Mexico City?

2. After studying sorcery for a while, what does Don Juan suddenly want to do one day, according to the teachings of Don Juan?

3. What does a nagual aim to do, according to Don Juan, when he is teaching Carlos in this section?

4. Where does Carlos have to store his memories of the things he has learned with Don Juan?

5. Why does Carlos become upset when he and Don Juan return to Don Juan's house?

6. What is the dissonant element that Don Juan introduces to Carlos as a part of his teaching?

7. What does Don Juan say will happen if he and Carlos are rational about the way they approach the jaguar?

8. What is the forerunner to silent knowledge in relation to the assemblage point?

9. What does Don Juan decide to do after he nearly drowns in the river?

10. Don Juan emphasizes that the first principle of sorcery is what, even though it is the thing that happens first?

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