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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 does this form of civilization bring with it?
(a) Hoarding.
(b) Overproduction.
(c) Trade.
(d) All of these.

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

3. What is the modern incarnation of the Shaman?
(a) Both of these.
(b) There aren't any modern shamans.
(c) Poets.
(d) Artists,

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

5. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?
(a) Africa is the most grassy of the continents so must be where mushrooms grew.
(b) Africa is a nice place to live, so it must be where the early humans were from.
(c) The evidence is overwhelming that Africa is where humanity began.
(d) Africa is the warmest of all the continents so must be where humanity began.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are allies friendly towards?

2. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?

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

4. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?

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

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