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

2. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?
(a) In the male hunters.
(b) All of these.
(c) In the women gatherers.
(d) In the children gatherers.

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

4. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?
(a) Spontaneous outbursts of poetry.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Speaking in tongues.
(d) Neither of these.

5. What is the name of the vines used in making ayahuasca?
(a) The Banisteriopsis vines.
(b) Campsis-radicans.
(c) Wisteria sinensis.
(d) Lonicera sempervirens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion in Africa is hallucinogenic plant based?

2. Why is a grass containing DMT an unlikely source of material to boost the human consciousness?

3. What plant is considered not only a hallucinogen, but also an aphrodisiac?

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

5. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?

(see the answer key)

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