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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do psychoactive plants allow a shaman to do?
(a) Allow the healer to journey into an invisible realm of natural magic.
(b) To inflate their ego.
(c) To manipulate the environment.
(d) To feel good about himself.

2. Where is the answer located on how to achieve balance within the environment?
(a) In Third World countries.
(b) Both of these.
(c) In aboriginal reserves.
(d) Neither of these.

3. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?
(a) A natural occurrence where trees aren't in abundance.
(b) Human activity, specifically agriculture.
(c) Human activity, specifically seasonal burning.
(d) Human activity, specifically logging.

4. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?
(a) The stuff sold was fake.
(b) Those who prepared it were charlatans.
(c) There was no spiritual experience in it.
(d) He thought that the market place stuff would make him sick.

5. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?
(a) Early hominids were simply eaters.
(b) Early hominids wouldn't have had time to distill something.
(c) Preparation required time that the hominids, as hunter gatherers, didn't have.
(d) Preparation belonged to a more evolved group of hominids.

Short Answer Questions

1. What particular family of active chemical compounds does McKenna believe affected human development?

2. In what pharmacological areas has LSD aided humanity?

3. What did the author find appalling?

4. "Shamanic ecstasy is is an act of _______..."?

5. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?

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