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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) All of these.
(b) They were cognitive.
(c) They were stoned.
(d) They were adaptive.

2. What is the snake a symbol of regarding shamanic convention?
(a) The reborn.
(b) The deceased.
(c) Evil.
(d) The devil.

3. Where do the 'old ways' still reside?
(a) Herbalism.
(b) Midwifery.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) In all of these.

4. What supports the theory that the Eleusinian drink was ergotized beer?
(a) Ergot is a source of powerful alkaloids that can cause hallucinations.
(b) Sir Arthur Evans unearthed vessels adorned with ears of barley.
(c) All of these.
(d) At the Eleusis festival, grain was very important.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?

2. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?

3. When was the hypodermic syringe invented?

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

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

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