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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Power Practices.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In the Jivaro tradition, the identity of a power animal is what?
(a) Strictly hidden from others.
(b) Revealed freely to everyone.
(c) Told to the patient's parents and siblings.
(d) Shared with the patient's spouse and children.
2. Why do individuals need the protection of a guardian spirit?
(a) They are weak.
(b) To reach adulthood.
(c) To counter chaotic spirits.
(d) To maintain a strong, steady heartbeat.
3. In some traditions, how is a quartz crystal recharged?
(a) Asking a power animal to dance with it in Lowerworld.
(b) Cleansing in the ocean or a spring, then left out in the sun on the solstice.
(c) Through a three-day ceremony of incense burning and constant chanting.
(d) Leaving it out in an intense thunderstorm.
4. How does Harner end his first shamanic journey exercise for the reader?
(a) Sound of a bell.
(b) Four sharp strikes.
(c) Wolf howl.
(d) Prolonged string vibration.
5. Harner indicates that a tonal animal is linked to someone's fate in what?
(a) Dream states.
(b) Shamanic states of consciousness.
(c) Ordinary reality.
(d) Pre-adolescent years.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Harner say that middle-class Americans report experiencing on their shamanic attempts?
2. What does the Jivaro shaman help Harner acquire?
3. Harner writes in Chapter 5 that power helps a person resist or dispel what?
4. Frequently, a patient has bonded with his or her power animal in:
5. What is the purpose of rapid drumming during the guided journey that Harner takes new students through?
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