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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 were Greek wines?
(a) Very strong.
(b) Very weak.
(c) None of these.
(d) More like tinctures.

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

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

4. What is interesting to note about Soma?
(a) The substance it is prepared from still has yet to be identified.
(b) It is, in affect a cure all and life extender.
(c) All of these.
(d) No praise seems to be enough for the substance.

5. What kind of substance is honey?
(a) Purifying.
(b) Magical.
(c) Preserving.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?

2. What was the juice expelled from poppies used to treat in Saxon England?

3. What is twilight state thinking characterized by?

4. What myth or story is explained in this chapter?

5. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?

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