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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 didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?
(a) There was no spiritual experience in it.
(b) Those who prepared it were charlatans.
(c) He thought that the market place stuff would make him sick.
(d) The stuff sold was fake.

2. What religion in Africa is hallucinogenic plant based?
(a) Bwati.
(b) Iboga.
(c) Bwiti.
(d) Bwratini.

3. 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) None of these.
(c) The war was lost in Vietnam and a retraction was done from S.E Asia.
(d) Cocaine had healing properties.

4. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?
(a) Women are praised but captive.
(b) Women aren't involved as they are in every other religion.
(c) Women are transformed into a negative aspect.
(d) All of these.

5. When did our estrangement from the conscious and the unconscious begin?
(a) About four thousand years ago.
(b) About three thousand years ago.
(c) About a thousand years ago.
(d) About two thousand years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the present mode of culturally acceptable recreational drug use?

2. What supports the theory that the Eleusinian drink was ergotized beer?

3. What was important in the evolution of modern humans?

4. What would separate the psychoactive alkaloids from those that are deadly in ergotized grain?

5. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?

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