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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the Jivaro shaman Harner works with?
(a) Machu.
(b) Arechu.
(c) Pikachu.
(d) Akachu.

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) Harner is not an Indian.
(c) Finding tsentak is an advanced shamanic practice.
(d) The tsentak are extremely elusive.

4. Shaman's do not challenge the validity of someone else's what?
(a) Drug addiction.
(b) Authentic first-hand experience.
(c) Healing methods.
(d) Claims of being a shaman.

5. What must the shaman feed his spirit helpers?
(a) Coffee nectar.
(b) Tobacco water.
(c) Vanilla beans.
(d) Ground allspice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Jivaro shaman give to Harner to drink?

2. Harner asks aspiring shamans to refrain from:

3. Apprentice shamans sometimes report to Harner that they:

4. When drugs are involved in Shaman practices, who takes them?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are other names the author mentions for guardian spirits, and what cultures call them by these alternate names?

2. Describe Harner's journey with Akachu.

3. How does Harner say that a shaman can be distinguished from other medicine men?

4. Prompted by similarities he found in books and accounts about shamanic experiences, what did Harner decide to do in order to learn more about shamanism?

5. Harner compares rock-seeing to what Western practices?

6. What is the practice of rock-seeing?

7. Who is Akachu, and how does he help Harner?

8. What does the author say shamans feel about what they see in the non-ordinary reality or shamanic state of consciousness (SSC)?

9. Harner says that apprentice shamans report similarities in how they get out of difficulties. What are some of the difficulties he mentions?

10. In the step-by-step instructions for going on a first shamanic journey that the author supplies for the reader in Chapter 2, how does he ask the participant to prepare?

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