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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Plant and Primates: Postcards from the Stoned Age.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?
(a) Anthropologists and Psychologists.
(b) Neurologists and Anthropologists.
(c) Neurologists and Sociologists.
(d) Psychologists and Neurologists.

2. What does a shaman get from entering the domain of plant intelligence?
(a) He becomes enraptured by this perspective and isn't able to leave.
(b) He finds answers to the life altering questions we all seek.
(c) He finds harmony with the environment.
(d) He becomes privileged to a higher dimensional perspective.

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

4. What plant is considered not only a hallucinogen, but also an aphrodisiac?
(a) Bwiti.
(b) Peganum harmala.
(c) Stropharia cubensis.
(d) Iboga.

5. What are allies friendly towards?
(a) Our struggle to maintain composure in the face of our egos.
(b) All of these.
(c) Our attempt to become something greater than ourselves.
(d) Our struggle to birth ourselves as an intelligent species.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?

2. What was the wave made of that the author rode?

3. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?

4. What does this form of civilization bring with it?

5. Where is the answer located on how to achieve balance within the environment?

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