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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ballad of the Dreaming Weavers: Cannabis and Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?
(a) Women are transformed into a negative aspect.
(b) Women are praised but captive.
(c) All of these.
(d) Women aren't involved as they are in every other religion.

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

5. What happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?
(a) The soul is denigrated.
(b) The individual is intoxicated.
(c) The soul is scooped from the body.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the snake a symbol of regarding shamanic convention?

2. What kind of substance is honey?

3. How had the natural world come to be seen by the late Roman times?

4. What effect(s) does ergotized grain have on the body?

5. What is the name of the vines used in making ayahuasca?

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