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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. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?
(a) Africa is the most grassy of the continents so must be where mushrooms grew.
(b) Africa is a nice place to live, so it must be where the early humans were from.
(c) Africa is the warmest of all the continents so must be where humanity began.
(d) The evidence is overwhelming that Africa is where humanity began.

2. What is interesting to note about the Soma deity?
(a) It is asexual.
(b) It is lunar.
(c) It is male and lunar.
(d) None of these.

3. What attitudes do allies have?
(a) They are intelligent and quiet.
(b) They are pushy and insistent.
(c) They are quiet and shy,
(d) They are quiet and stupid.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?

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

4. Why is a grass containing DMT an unlikely source of material to boost the human consciousness?

5. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?

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