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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. What does Harner recommend to a shaman student if he or she meets frightening creatures, such as fanged serpents or fish with teeth?
(a) Show no fear and proceed with caution.
(b) Close your eyes, count to three, and continue forward if the creature has disappeared.
(c) Come back up the tunnel and try again later.
(d) Sing a power song and ask for protection.

2. What are guardian spirits called in Siberia?
(a) Tutelary spirits.
(b) Angelic beings.
(c) Guardian angels.
(d) Warning spirits.

3. In the Jivaro tradition, the identity of a power animal is what?
(a) Revealed freely to everyone.
(b) Strictly hidden from others.
(c) Told to the patient's parents and siblings.
(d) Shared with the patient's spouse and children.

4. Among other sensations in his experience with the Conibo, Harner experiences a sense of flying inside what?
(a) A spaceship.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A water well.
(d) A zero-gravity orb.

5. Included in the reports from participants of Harner's first guided shamanic exercise are:
(a) Suggestions on what to do when encountering an impenetrable obstacle.
(b) Numerous cases of people experiencing nausea and vertigo.
(c) Detailed conversations with star people and other extraterrestrials.
(d) Accounts of disappearing momentarily and not being seen by others in the room.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Harner, what are "big dreams?"

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

4. What do the Jivaro see in someone who possesses a guardian?

5. Harner indicates that becoming a shaman involves pain, facing fears, and a willingness to:

(see the answer key)

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