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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. What was the last bastion(s) of paganism?

2. What was the opium tincture's name?

3. What was the splendor of the past based largely on?

4. How did Albert Hoffman ingest LSD?

5. What Canadian psychologist(s) found that patients treated for alcoholism with LSD improved?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the reasonable course of action regarding substance use?

3. What is the difference between heroin and tobacco regarding addiction?

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

5. What is the strongest argument for the legalization of any drug?

6. What do the governments gain in the visible suppression of morphine, heroin, and cocaine?

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

8. How did the mystery get abandoned?

9. What was indicative of an influx in feminine values?

10. What are the downsides to coffee addiction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

McKenna compared the dissection of corpses to learn anatomy similar to the expansion of the mind to learn why human beings exist. Although one was punished as witchcraft, students still risked imprisonment and death to advance their knowledge. McKenna argues that humanity should continue to experiment with hallucinogens in modern times. Do you support this position? Why or why not? How is this an interesting concept to approach? Why would it have to be approached cautiously?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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