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

2. When was the first sample of psilocybe cubensis collected?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1906.

3. What is the angel with the flashing sword representing?
(a) The competitive nature of the world.
(b) The vengeful and ego driven god.
(c) All of these.
(d) The harshness of the desert environment.

4. What is interesting to note about Soma?
(a) No praise seems to be enough for the substance.
(b) The substance it is prepared from still has yet to be identified.
(c) All of these.
(d) It is, in affect a cure all and life extender.

5. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?
(a) Those who prepared it were charlatans.
(b) He thought that the market place stuff would make him sick.
(c) The stuff sold was fake.
(d) There was no spiritual experience in it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was important in the evolution of modern humans?

2. What goddess did the Paleolithic cult worship?

3. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?

4. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?

5. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?

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