View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is interesting to note about Soma?
(a) It is, in affect a cure all and life extender.
(b) No praise seems to be enough for the substance.
(c) All of these.
(d) The substance it is prepared from still has yet to be identified.

2. What is the modern incarnation of the Shaman?
(a) Poets.
(b) There aren't any modern shamans.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Artists,

3. What was prominent on all images depicting the father of the Goddess?
(a) The staff.
(b) All of these.
(c) The headgear.
(d) The shirt.

4. What is a common metaphor for Soma?
(a) The sheep.
(b) The cow.
(c) The bull.
(d) The pig.

5. What do the dancing shamans have in their hands and sticking out of their bodies?
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) None of these.
(c) People.
(d) Light.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?

2. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?

3. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?

4. What questions do humans find most interesting?

5. What goddess did the Paleolithic cult worship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two active chemical compounds in the Fly Agaric mushroom?

2. What is the difference between a dominator society and a partnership society?

3. In what two ways can the Transcendent Other be described?

4. What kinds of shamanic practices lead to ecstasy?

5. Why does cattle being a major motif in the Soma cult make little sense if Wasson is right?

6. Why are the numbered paragraphs so important to humanity?

7. What important factor did women bring to language?

8. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

9. What was Eliade's motive for exposing shamanism?

10. What two group activities acted to draw the hunter gatherer and tribal people closer together that modern civilization disdains?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 909 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample