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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. Where is the answer located on how to achieve balance within the environment?
(a) In aboriginal reserves.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) In Third World countries.
(d) Both of these.

2. What was the wave made of that the author rode?
(a) Sand.
(b) Air.
(c) Water.
(d) Information.

3. After what point may a shaman have access to a superhuman plane?
(a) After he has trained for fifteen years under the tutelage of a shaman.
(b) After he has the experience of resurrection while in ecstasy.
(c) After he has gained the wisdom from the other plane.
(d) After he has graduated the "shamanism 101" course.

4. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?
(a) Dona Caralina.
(b) Dona Catalina.
(c) Dona Ceraline.
(d) Dona Carolina.

5. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?
(a) Animal breeding.
(b) Livestock.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Domestication.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?

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

4. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?

5. What goddess did the Paleolithic cult worship?

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