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

2. What particular family of active chemical compounds does McKenna believe affected human development?
(a) Indole hallucinogens.
(b) Imbibed hallucinogens.
(c) Indile hallucinogens.
(d) Infold hallucinogens.

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

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

5. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?
(a) Human activity, specifically agriculture.
(b) Human activity, specifically logging.
(c) Human activity, specifically seasonal burning.
(d) A natural occurrence where trees aren't in abundance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?

2. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?

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

4. What questions do humans find most interesting?

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

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