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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 treaty legalized opium traffic in China?
(a) Treaty of Tentsin.
(b) Treaty of Telentsin.
(c) Treaty of Tientsin.
(d) Treaty of Tentsin.

2. What was the reason for the American government to make the emphasis off of heroin and onto cocaine?
(a) Cocaine was proven to be less addictive.
(b) The war was lost in Vietnam and a retraction was done from S.E Asia.
(c) None of these.
(d) Cocaine had healing properties.

3. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?
(a) The linguistic impulse.
(b) The optical impulses.
(c) The auditory impulse.
(d) All of these.

4. What is the name of the vines used in making ayahuasca?
(a) The Banisteriopsis vines.
(b) Lonicera sempervirens.
(c) Wisteria sinensis.
(d) Campsis-radicans.

5. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?
(a) Africa is the warmest of all the continents so must be where humanity began.
(b) The evidence is overwhelming that Africa is where humanity began.
(c) Africa is a nice place to live, so it must be where the early humans were from.
(d) Africa is the most grassy of the continents so must be where mushrooms grew.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?

3. What is the snake a symbol of regarding shamanic convention?

4. What questions do humans find most interesting?

5. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?

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