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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Extracting Harmful Intrusions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must a shaman not send power directly to the patient?
(a) It can contaminate the patient's energy.
(b) The extra power can shock a weakened patient's system.
(c) The guardian spirit animals will feel useless and disappear.
(d) It will exhaust the shaman's energy.

2. What happens after patient and shaman dance together in the wilderness and the shaman takes on the patient's pain?
(a) The patient collapses and, upon awakening, is cured.
(b) The shaman expels the pain without getting sick.
(c) The shaman requires an intervention to stay healthy.
(d) The patient, now well, shakes a rattle until the shaman is pain-free.

3. Why is the Jivaro shaman who helps Harner worried that the author may not be able to find tsentak?
(a) Harner has not gone through the necessary rituals.
(b) Finding tsentak is an advanced shamanic practice.
(c) Harner is not an Indian.
(d) The tsentak are extremely elusive.

4. Frequently, a patient has bonded with his or her power animal in:
(a) A previous lifetime.
(b) Early adulthood.
(c) Childhood.
(d) The spirit world.

5. After Harner is awakened from his maikua trance, what is he given?
(a) Warm oolong tea and papaya seeds.
(b) Pork and mango chutney.
(c) Peaches and grubs.
(d) Warm beer and monkey meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the tobacco trap method of extracting an intrusion, the Lakota Sioux do what?

2. Many traditions speak of the mythical past when animals could:

3. How does a guardian spirit animal encountered in Lowerworld often communicate with the shaman?

4. What does the Jivaro shaman help Harner acquire?

5. Shamans typically utilize crystals as:

(see the answer key)

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