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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Opium and Tobacco.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Demeter was the goddess of what, according to the Greeks?
(a) Grain.
(b) Poppies.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

2. In Egypt around the sixteen hundreds, opium was prescribed to whom?
(a) Crying children.
(b) Expecting mothers.
(c) Nursing mothers.
(d) Everyone.

3. What factors have brought human evolution to a halt?
(a) The rise of communications.
(b) Our sheer numbers.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

4. What is the snake a symbol of regarding shamanic convention?
(a) Evil.
(b) The devil.
(c) The reborn.
(d) The deceased.

5. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?
(a) The ego.
(b) Conscience.
(c) None of these.
(d) Karma.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?

2. In what year was a full years worth of opium sent up in smoke in China?

3. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?

4. Why what year was tobacco routinely smoked with opium in China?

5. What does this form of civilization bring with it?

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