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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Shamanism and States of Consciousness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author tell an aspiring shaman to do upon returning from his or her first journey?
(a) Go to sleep.
(b) Immediately stand and walk around.
(c) Describe the journey aloud.
(d) Drink a glass of water.

2. When drugs are involved in Shaman practices, who takes them?
(a) The shaman and the patient's family members.
(b) The shaman.
(c) The patient.
(d) The shaman and the patient.

3. What happens in the state a shaman reaches, known as a type of ecstasy?
(a) The shaman taps into perfect bliss.
(b) The shaman's spirit goes on a type of auto-pilot mode.
(c) The soul leaves the body, either ascending or descending.
(d) A higher entity takes over and controls the shaman's body.

4. Why does Harner say it's important that the shaman does not tell the patient's family that he already has the ordinary form of the spirit in his mouth?
(a) The family should not know what is happening to the patient without the patient's explicit permission.
(b) The physical manifestation that has infected the patient will read the family's thoughts, rendering the cure useless.
(c) It will frighten the family, and this fear will work against the energies applied by the shaman.
(d) The symbolic act of expelling the ordinary form is part of the ritual rather than the actual act that removes the intruder spirit.

5. What does Harner say that middle-class Americans report experiencing on their shamanic attempts?
(a) Tunnels.
(b) Euphoria.
(c) Temperature changes.
(d) Colors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Harner asks aspiring shamans to refrain from:

3. On his or her first guided journey, the shaman student is asked by Harner to visualize what?

4. Why do individuals need the protection of a guardian spirit?

5. What are the tsentak?

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