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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 was the juice expelled from poppies used to treat in Saxon England?
(a) Sleeplessness.
(b) Headaches.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

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

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

4. Demeter was the goddess of what, according to the Greeks?
(a) Grain.
(b) Poppies.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

5. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?
(a) The ego.
(b) Karma.
(c) None of these.
(d) Conscience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?

2. What supports the theory that the Eleusinian drink was ergotized beer?

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

4. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?

5. When was the hypodermic syringe invented?

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