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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day was tobacco first introduced into Europe?

2. What had sugar been known for centuries as?

3. What did the sugar craze promote and cause to further promote itself?

4. What was the difference between the tobacco of the Classical Maya and that of which was distributed in Europe?

5. What was the purpose of having all these children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was considered history's joke on Europe?

2. What is the difference between ayahuasca and DMT hallucinations?

3. Why aren't the positive effects of marijuana usage reported in America from scientists?

4. How could Glaukos represent the Stropharia cubensis mushroom?

5. What was the difference in the tobacco's smoked by the natives in South America and the tobacco cultivated in Europe?

6. In what ways were opium ingested and what sparked the change in ingestion?

7. What motifs of a barely remembered mushroom cult are evident in the story of Glaukos?

8. What of Marco Polo's adventures in the mysterious East may have blackened Cannabis' reputation?

9. What were the first of the Europeans to outlaw tobacco? What affect did this have on consumption?

10. How did the mystery get abandoned?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the purpose and benefits from the perspective of a government to having a consumerist population. How is this contrary to what McKenna suggests? What would change socially if this perspective did as well? How would this be contrary to the desires of a governmental establishment?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the book. What bias is presented in its layout? How does it display this bias in its representation? In what ways could the book have been given a more two sided approach? What would have been your opinion of it had this been the case?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss alcohol consumption. How is it one of the most prevalent substances to induce intoxication on the market? What characteristic lends it it's stability in the consumerist marketplace? What is the problem with prolonged consumption?

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