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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Plant and Primates: Postcards from the Stoned Age.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author learn about in India regarding religion?
(a) It is a world of lies shrouded in fantasy.
(b) It is a clever sales technique.
(c) It is created by charlatans as a form of subservience.
(d) It is no more than a hustle.

2. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?
(a) Broca's area and the cerebral cortex.
(b) Broca's area and the neocortex.
(c) The cerebral cortex and the neocortex.
(d) The hypothalamus and the neocortex.

3. Why is a grass containing DMT an unlikely source of material to boost the human consciousness?
(a) It would have to be extracted.
(b) Humans didn't graze.
(c) It would have to be distilled.
(d) Humans didn't eat grass.

4. In what pharmacological areas has LSD aided humanity?
(a) Treatment of chronic alcoholism.
(b) Psychotherapy.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?

2. What does a shaman get from entering the domain of plant intelligence?

3. Where might this form of civilization began?

4. What did the author find appalling?

5. What does science fail to do?

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