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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 a common metaphor for Soma?
(a) The cow.
(b) The sheep.
(c) The bull.
(d) The pig.

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

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

4. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?
(a) They are dangerous.
(b) They are frivolous.
(c) In neither of these ways.
(d) In both these ways.

5. What is a synonym to creode?
(a) Creed.
(b) Habit.
(c) Preference.
(d) Avoid-ability.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the built in recliners suggest?

3. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?

4. What main point(s) are offered against the fly agaric mushroom?

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

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