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

2. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?
(a) Anthropologists and Psychologists.
(b) Neurologists and Anthropologists.
(c) Psychologists and Neurologists.
(d) Neurologists and Sociologists.

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

4. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?
(a) North America.
(b) None of these.
(c) India.
(d) China.

5. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?
(a) To abandon his body.
(b) To heal the individual.
(c) To convey religious intent to a population.
(d) To guide the people spiritually.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the modern incarnation of the Shaman?

2. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?

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

4. What does this form of civilization bring with it?

5. The author originally believed that magic was a phenomenon of the...?

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