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

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

3. 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.

4. What according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?
(a) They were adaptive.
(b) They were stoned.
(c) They were cognitive.
(d) All of these.

5. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?
(a) Human activity, specifically logging.
(b) A natural occurrence where trees aren't in abundance.
(c) Human activity, specifically seasonal burning.
(d) Human activity, specifically agriculture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?

2. What do psychoactive plants allow a shaman to do?

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

4. What substances did the author use?

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

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