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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 is a common metaphor for Soma?
(a) The bull.
(b) The pig.
(c) The sheep.
(d) The cow.

2. What intoxicant was imbibed by the tribes of Siberia?
(a) Amanita lanei
(b) Amanita phalloids.
(c) Amanita muscaria.
(d) Amanita bisporigera.

3. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?
(a) In both these ways.
(b) They are dangerous.
(c) In neither of these ways.
(d) They are frivolous.

4. What isn't ecstasy?
(a) Terrifying.
(b) A subservient experience.
(c) Hilarious.
(d) Familiar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?

2. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?

3. What is the name of the vines used in making ayahuasca?

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

5. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?

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