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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 was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?
(a) Dona Ceraline.
(b) Dona Catalina.
(c) Dona Carolina.
(d) Dona Caralina.

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

3. What questions do humans find most interesting?
(a) Who are we?
(b) Towards what fate do we move?
(c) All of these.
(d) Where did we come from?

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

5. What is the soul of poetic verse?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Truth.
(c) Love.
(d) Commitment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?

2. What does a shaman get from entering the domain of plant intelligence?

3. Which writer is mentioned?

4. What does science fail to do?

5. What attitudes do allies have?

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