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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 did the author find appalling?
(a) The shamanic world could be accessed by anyone, but no one had believed in it.
(b) That religion was a construct to eliminate the truth of shamanism.
(c) That the shamanic world was more real than our own.
(d) That the shamanic world offered truth and the real world offered lies.

2. What happens where hallucinogenic plants do not occur?
(a) Cultural innovation occurs very slowly if at all.
(b) Cultural innovation does not occur.
(c) Cultural innovation doesn't provide any new information.
(d) Cultural innovation occurs at high speeds.

3. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?
(a) Having intercourse.
(b) Drumming.
(c) Fasting.
(d) Manipulation of breath.

4. What does a shaman get from entering the domain of plant intelligence?
(a) He becomes enraptured by this perspective and isn't able to leave.
(b) He becomes privileged to a higher dimensional perspective.
(c) He finds answers to the life altering questions we all seek.
(d) He finds harmony with the environment.

5. What factors have brought human evolution to a halt?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Our sheer numbers.
(d) The rise of communications.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is a synonym to creode?

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

5. When did our estrangement from the conscious and the unconscious begin?

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