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

2. Where does Terence McKenna believe Eden was?
(a) The Tasilli n Ajjer.
(b) All of these.
(c) The Tassili n Ajjer.
(d) The Tasili n Agger.

3. What is shamanism?
(a) All of these.
(b) Healing.
(c) Divination.
(d) Theatrical performance.

4. What is the soul of poetic verse?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) All of these.
(c) Human emotion.
(d) Intoxication.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?

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

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

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

5. What artistic style does a painting from Inaouanrhat in the Tassili resemble?

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