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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Searching for Soma: The Golden Vedic Enigma.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why would mushrooms have been especially noticeable on the African grasslands?
(a) Their colors would have been intriguing.
(b) None of these.
(c) All of these.
(d) Their inviting smell.

3. When did the preparation of visionary Soma cease?
(a) All of these.
(b) When the Indo-Europeans stopped migrating.
(c) When patriarchy became dominant.
(d) When the rise of Christianity ensued.

4. The author originally believed that magic was a phenomenon of the...?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Primitive.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Naive,

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a synonym to creode?

2. What was the wave made of that the author rode?

3. What goddess did the Paleolithic cult worship?

4. What happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?

5. What cognitive ability are humans not known for?

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