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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 are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?
(a) Broca's area and the neocortex.
(b) The cerebral cortex and the neocortex.
(c) The hypothalamus and the neocortex.
(d) Broca's area and the cerebral cortex.

2. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Speaking in tongues.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Spontaneous outbursts of poetry.

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

4. What attitudes do allies have?
(a) They are intelligent and quiet.
(b) They are quiet and shy,
(c) They are pushy and insistent.
(d) They are quiet and stupid.

5. What is produced by language?
(a) Fiction.
(b) People.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what pharmacological areas has LSD aided humanity?

2. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?

3. What plant is considered not only a hallucinogen, but also an aphrodisiac?

4. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?

5. What is the modern incarnation of the Shaman?

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