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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 according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?
(a) They were cognitive.
(b) They were stoned.
(c) They were adaptive.
(d) All of these.

2. 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) The soul is scooped from the body.
(d) All of these.

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

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

5. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?
(a) Africa is the most grassy of the continents so must be where mushrooms grew.
(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) The evidence is overwhelming that Africa is where humanity began.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first sample of psilocybe cubensis collected?

2. What are allies friendly towards?

3. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?

4. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?

5. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?

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