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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alcohol and the Alchemy of Spirit.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?
(a) Scientific industrialism.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Global politics.
(d) Neither of these.

2. What has been agreed on regarding Soma?
(a) It is yellow in color.
(b) It has hanging branches.
(c) It originates in the mountains.
(d) All of these.

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

4. What is interesting to note about the Soma deity?
(a) It is asexual.
(b) None of these.
(c) It is lunar.
(d) It is male and lunar.

5. What does Eastern philosophy call the dissolution of the ego?
(a) The Tao.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) None of these.
(d) The rapture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a common metaphor for Soma?

2. Which writer is mentioned?

3. What is the soul of poetic verse?

4. What happens where hallucinogenic plants do not occur?

5. What questions do humans find most interesting?

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