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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The High Plains of Eden.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What tree did the woman eat from?
(a) Both of these.
(b) The Tree of Knowledge.
(c) The Tree of Life.
(d) Either of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What goddess did the Paleolithic cult worship?

2. When was the first sample of psilocybe cubensis collected?

3. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?

4. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?

5. The author originally believed that magic was a phenomenon of the...?

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