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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Synthetics: Heroin, Cocaine and Television.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The evidence is overwhelming that Africa is where humanity began.
(d) Africa is the warmest of all the continents so must be where humanity began.

2. What substances did the author use?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Ayahuasca.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Psilocybin mushrooms.

3. Demeter was the goddess of what, according to the Greeks?
(a) Poppies.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Grain.

4. What main point(s) are offered against the fly agaric mushroom?
(a) The incorporation of cattle in the ritual makes no sense.
(b) All of these.
(c) It doesn't provide reliable ecstatic experiences.
(d) The experience is unpleasant in nature.

5. Where might this form of civilization began?
(a) Africa.
(b) None of these.
(c) France.
(d) Turkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who could claim the dubious distinction of introducing slavery into the new world?

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

3. What do the dancing shamans have in their hands and sticking out of their bodies?

4. Who was famed to be the father of chemotherapy?

5. Where do the 'old ways' still reside?

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