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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 cognitive ability are humans not known for?
(a) Dance.
(b) Sport.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Philosophy.

2. The author originally believed that magic was a phenomenon of the...?
(a) Primitive.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Naive,

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

4. What do psychoactive plants allow a shaman to do?
(a) To feel good about himself.
(b) Allow the healer to journey into an invisible realm of natural magic.
(c) To inflate their ego.
(d) To manipulate the environment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?

2. What attitudes do allies have?

3. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?

4. What does a shaman get from entering the domain of plant intelligence?

5. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?

(see the answer key)

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