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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Power Animals.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do shamans use their guardian spirits?
(a) Actively.
(b) In supplication.
(c) Through trickery.
(d) In passing.

2. What are guardian spirits known as in Australia?
(a) Angelic assistant.
(b) Totem angel.
(c) Assistant totem.
(d) Spirit of assistance.

3. During the Lakota practice of rock-seeing, a shaman considers a problem while walking through what?
(a) A rocky stream.
(b) A field of boulders.
(c) A wild area.
(d) A bed of heated rocks.

4. What is the most famous method of acquiring a guardian animal spirit?
(a) Consciousness quest.
(b) Vision quest.
(c) Astral vision.
(d) Rock seeing.

5. Harner repeatedly emphasizes that not all shamanic experiences involve drugs and instead rely on what?
(a) Drumming, chanting, singing, and symbolism.
(b) Meditating, fasting, running, and self-deprivation.
(c) Jumping, eating, and dreaming.
(d) Storytelling, praying, and daydreaming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why might a shaman work in darkness?

2. What is the name of the Jivaro shaman Harner works with?

3. Harner's reports of the rituals, symbols, and visions of the different tribes he observes are what?

4. Master shamans focus on a triumvirate which is composed of what?

5. If SSC stands for shamanic state of consciousness, what does OSC stand for?

(see the answer key)

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