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

2. What myth or story is explained in this chapter?
(a) The one of Glaukos.
(b) The one of Persephone.
(c) The one of Polyidos.
(d) The one of King Minos.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had caused the abandonment of Catal Huyuk?

3. What effect(s) does ergotized grain have on the body?

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

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

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