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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What archaeological site has yielded a wealth of religious art?
(a) Catal Huyak.
(b) Catal Hiyak.
(c) Catal Huyuk.
(d) Caral Huyuk.

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

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

6. Why might Zoroaster have banned Soma?
(a) He objected to the bull sacrifice that was a part of the ritual.
(b) He objected to altered states of mind.
(c) He was greatly influenced by the Christian religion that was forming.
(d) He thought of all altered states of mind as witchcraft.

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

8. "Shamanic ecstasy is is an act of _______..."?
(a) Fortification.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Unveiling the world around us.
(d) Honesty.

9. What is the notion of illegal plants?
(a) Obnoxious but sensible.
(b) Obnoxious but objective.
(c) Sane and objective.
(d) Obnoxious and ridiculous.

10. What has been agreed on regarding Soma?
(a) It is yellow in color.
(b) It has hanging branches.
(c) All of these.
(d) It originates in the mountains.

11. 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.

12. What does Eastern philosophy call the dissolution of the ego?
(a) The rapture.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) None of these.
(d) The Tao.

13. When did our estrangement from the conscious and the unconscious begin?
(a) About a thousand years ago.
(b) About four thousand years ago.
(c) About two thousand years ago.
(d) About three thousand years ago.

14. What unpleasant plants are also used by shamans?
(a) All of these.
(b) Daturas.
(c) Brugmansias.
(d) Virola based snuffs.

15. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?
(a) Africa is a nice place to live, so it must be where the early humans were from.
(b) Africa is the warmest of all the continents so must be where humanity began.
(c) The evidence is overwhelming that Africa is where humanity began.
(d) Africa is the most grassy of the continents so must be where mushrooms grew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What culture arrived in Palestine and offered an explosion in societal activities like art?

2. What was prominent on all images depicting the father of the Goddess?

3. Of the animals present at the dig site mentioned, where were they from?

4. What did the author learn about in India regarding religion?

5. What factors have brought human evolution to a halt?

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