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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 questions do humans find most interesting?
(a) All of these.
(b) Where did we come from?
(c) Towards what fate do we move?
(d) Who are we?

2. What particular family of active chemical compounds does McKenna believe affected human development?
(a) Infold hallucinogens.
(b) Indole hallucinogens.
(c) Imbibed hallucinogens.
(d) Indile hallucinogens.

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

4. What factors have brought human evolution to a halt?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) The rise of communications.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Our sheer numbers.

5. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?
(a) They are frivolous.
(b) In neither of these ways.
(c) They are dangerous.
(d) In both these ways.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the modern incarnation of the Shaman?

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

3. What did the author learn about in India regarding religion?

4. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?

5. In what pharmacological areas has LSD aided humanity?

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