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

2. What would separate the psychoactive alkaloids from those that are deadly in ergotized grain?
(a) Macerating the grain in pigs fat.
(b) Macerating the grain in water.
(c) The fermentation process of the grain.
(d) Macerating the grain in wine.

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

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

5. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?
(a) The cerebral cortex and the neocortex.
(b) Broca's area and the neocortex.
(c) The hypothalamus and the neocortex.
(d) Broca's area and the cerebral cortex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What treaty legalized opium traffic in China?

2. Demeter was the goddess of what, according to the Greeks?

3. What was important in the evolution of modern humans?

4. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?

5. What is the main problem with this theory?

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