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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 according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?
(a) They were adaptive.
(b) All of these.
(c) They were stoned.
(d) They were cognitive.

2. What was the juice expelled from poppies used to treat in Saxon England?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Sleeplessness.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Headaches.

3. Where did the Goddess survive long after the dominator style had been in place everywhere else?
(a) Greece.
(b) Crete.
(c) Africa.
(d) France.

4. In Egypt around the sixteen hundreds, opium was prescribed to whom?
(a) Nursing mothers.
(b) Crying children.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Expecting mothers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this form of civilization bring with it?

2. Who was famed to be the father of chemotherapy?

3. Who had the ability to convey the visionary power of opium?

4. What is the main problem with this theory?

5. When was the hypodermic syringe invented?

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