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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 this form of civilization bring with it?
(a) All of these.
(b) Hoarding.
(c) Trade.
(d) Overproduction.

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

3. Who was famed to be the father of chemotherapy?
(a) Plato.
(b) Paracelsus.
(c) Parcelsus.
(d) None of these.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?

3. Where did the Goddess survive long after the dominator style had been in place everywhere else?

4. What cognitive ability are humans not known for?

5. Where might this form of civilization began?

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