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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. What happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?
(a) All of these.
(b) The individual is intoxicated.
(c) The soul is scooped from the body.
(d) The soul is denigrated.

2. What is the notion of illegal plants?
(a) Sane and objective.
(b) Obnoxious and ridiculous.
(c) Obnoxious but objective.
(d) Obnoxious but sensible.

3. What was the first and most immediate payoff of the New World?
(a) Opium.
(b) Gold.
(c) Corn.
(d) Tobacco.

4. Which writer is mentioned?
(a) Carlos Castaneda.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Mircea Eliade.

5. What is promoted by this toxic diet?
(a) Abuse of the land.
(b) All of these.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) Toxic addiction and intoxication.

Short Answer Questions

1. What often went hand in hand with alcohol?

2. What is the main problem with this theory?

3. What particular family of active chemical compounds does McKenna believe affected human development?

4. What is interesting to note about the Soma deity?

5. What was the first synthetic drug?

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