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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alcohol and the Alchemy of Spirit.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?
(a) The soul is denigrated.
(b) The individual is intoxicated.
(c) All of these.
(d) The soul is scooped from the body.

3. What main point(s) are offered against the fly agaric mushroom?
(a) The incorporation of cattle in the ritual makes no sense.
(b) The experience is unpleasant in nature.
(c) All of these.
(d) It doesn't provide reliable ecstatic experiences.

4. What did the author find appalling?
(a) The shamanic world could be accessed by anyone, but no one had believed in it.
(b) That religion was a construct to eliminate the truth of shamanism.
(c) That the shamanic world offered truth and the real world offered lies.
(d) That the shamanic world was more real than our own.

5. What was made by Raymond Lully?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Bourbon.
(c) Scotch.
(d) Brandy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?

2. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?

3. What questions do humans find most interesting?

4. What does Eastern philosophy call the dissolution of the ego?

5. What happens where hallucinogenic plants do not occur?

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