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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 is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?
(a) Women are praised but captive.
(b) Women aren't involved as they are in every other religion.
(c) All of these.
(d) Women are transformed into a negative aspect.

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

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

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

5. What do psychoactive plants allow a shaman to do?
(a) To manipulate the environment.
(b) Allow the healer to journey into an invisible realm of natural magic.
(c) To feel good about himself.
(d) To inflate their ego.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does science fail to do?

3. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?

4. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?

5. Where might this form of civilization began?

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