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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Habits as Culture and Religion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would mushrooms have been especially noticeable on the African grasslands?
(a) None of these.
(b) Their colors would have been intriguing.
(c) All of these.
(d) Their inviting smell.

2. What was important in the evolution of modern humans?
(a) The thinning and shortening of the arm bones.
(b) Singing.
(c) Talking.
(d) The thinning of the cranial bones.

3. What are allies friendly towards?
(a) Our attempt to become something greater than ourselves.
(b) All of these.
(c) Our struggle to maintain composure in the face of our egos.
(d) Our struggle to birth ourselves as an intelligent species.

4. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?
(a) Fasting.
(b) Drumming.
(c) Having intercourse.
(d) Manipulation of breath.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?

2. When did our estrangement from the conscious and the unconscious begin?

3. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?

4. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?

5. What is produced by language?

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