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

2. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?
(a) Women aren't involved as they are in every other religion.
(b) Women are transformed into a negative aspect.
(c) Women are praised but captive.
(d) All of these.

3. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Scientific industrialism.
(d) Global politics.

4. Where might this form of civilization began?
(a) France.
(b) None of these.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Africa.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why would mushrooms have been especially noticeable on the African grasslands?

3. What questions do humans find most interesting?

4. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?

5. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?

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