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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 does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?
(a) The linguistic impulse.
(b) All of these.
(c) The optical impulses.
(d) The auditory impulse.

2. What are allies friendly towards?
(a) Our struggle to maintain composure in the face of our egos.
(b) All of these.
(c) Our struggle to birth ourselves as an intelligent species.
(d) Our attempt to become something greater than ourselves.

3. When did our estrangement from the conscious and the unconscious begin?
(a) About two thousand years ago.
(b) About three thousand years ago.
(c) About a thousand years ago.
(d) About four thousand years ago.

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

5. What culture arrived in Palestine and offered an explosion in societal activities like art?
(a) The Tassili culture.
(b) None of these.
(c) The Paleolithic culture.
(d) The Natufian culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the dancing shamans have in their hands and sticking out of their bodies?

2. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?

3. Why might Zoroaster have banned Soma?

4. What artistic style does a painting from Inaouanrhat in the Tassili resemble?

5. What is shamanism?

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