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

2. What factors have brought human evolution to a halt?
(a) The rise of communications.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Our sheer numbers.
(d) Neither of these.

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

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

5. What was the first and most immediate payoff of the New World?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Gold.
(c) Opium.
(d) Corn.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What would separate the psychoactive alkaloids from those that are deadly in ergotized grain?

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