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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Opium and Tobacco.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What ended the glorification of nature and the planet as supreme spiritual forces?
(a) The rise of Catholicism.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) The rise of Christianity.

3. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?
(a) All of these.
(b) The auditory impulse.
(c) The linguistic impulse.
(d) The optical impulses.

4. What was the difference between the tobacco of the Classical Maya and that of which was distributed in Europe?
(a) It was hallucinogenic.
(b) It induced a state of ecstasy.
(c) It was far more addictive.
(d) It was euphoric.

5. What is the main problem with this theory?
(a) Ergot is toxic.
(b) Ergot causes madness.
(c) Ergot is addictive.
(d) Ergot causes blindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was a full years worth of opium sent up in smoke in China?

2. What would separate the psychoactive alkaloids from those that are deadly in ergotized grain?

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

4. In Egypt around the sixteen hundreds, opium was prescribed to whom?

5. Why what year was tobacco routinely smoked with opium in China?

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