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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Habits as Culture and Religion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author find appalling?
(a) That the shamanic world offered truth and the real world offered lies.
(b) That the shamanic world was more real than our own.
(c) The shamanic world could be accessed by anyone, but no one had believed in it.
(d) That religion was a construct to eliminate the truth of shamanism.

2. Where might this form of civilization began?
(a) Turkey.
(b) None of these.
(c) Africa.
(d) France.

3. What is a synonym to creode?
(a) Habit.
(b) Avoid-ability.
(c) Creed.
(d) Preference.

4. What happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?
(a) The individual is intoxicated.
(b) The soul is denigrated.
(c) All of these.
(d) The soul is scooped from the body.

5. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?
(a) The evidence is overwhelming that Africa is where humanity began.
(b) Africa is a nice place to live, so it must be where the early humans were from.
(c) Africa is the warmest of all the continents so must be where humanity began.
(d) Africa is the most grassy of the continents so must be where mushrooms grew.

Short Answer Questions

1. After what point may a shaman have access to a superhuman plane?

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

3. What was the wave made of that the author rode?

4. Where do the most powerful mutagens occur naturally?

5. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?

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