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

2. Why what year was tobacco routinely smoked with opium in China?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1654.
(c) 1794.
(d) 1693.

3. Psilocybin mushrooms stain which color when bruised or broken?
(a) Grayish.
(b) Greenish.
(c) Bluish.
(d) Reddish.

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

5. Who had the ability to convey the visionary power of opium?
(a) Thomas De Quincey.
(b) Piranesi.
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(d) Timothy Leary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the juice expelled from poppies used to treat in Saxon England?

2. On what day was tobacco first introduced into Europe?

3. Where do the 'old ways' still reside?

4. What myth or story is explained in this chapter?

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

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