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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Shamanic Journey: Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a journey that lasts several days in the jungle with his companions, Harner is taken where?
(a) On another journey to experience higher levels of reality.
(b) To a ledge overlooking an enchanted valley.
(c) To the source of the Amazon to meet the highest shaman.
(d) Beneath a waterfall for a mystical experience.

2. When the shaman is in an altered state, how does healing take place?
(a) By allowing ghost healers to work through the shaman.
(b) By restoring beneficial power or removing harmful power from the patient.
(c) By merging the collective thoughts of everyone present.
(d) By enabling the shaman to spiritually enter the patient's body and physically fix the problem.

3. In a drug-induced vision, Harner sees demons as:
(a) Fish with teeth.
(b) Faceless ghosts.
(c) Reptiles.
(d) Beetles.

4. In his guided, step-by-step instructions for a first journey, Harner instructs the aspiring shaman to eat:
(a) Only seeds and fruit.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Lightly.
(d) Nothing.

5. What does Harner point out about the Lakota Sioux and the Coast Salish tribes?
(a) They achieve altered states of consciousness without using hallucinogenic substances.
(b) Shun the practice of shamanism and instead pass down stories from one generation to the next.
(c) Are the best natural healers in the world.
(d) Were the first tribes known to practice shamanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a shaman able to do to restore health in a person with the assistance of appropriate spirit helpers?

2. How does Harner end his first shamanic journey exercise for the reader?

3. A shaman might enter a shamanic state of consciousness to bring back messages for whom?

4. What does Harner say that middle-class Americans report experiencing on their shamanic attempts?

5. What is the purpose of rapid drumming during the guided journey that Harner takes new students through?

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