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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. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?
(a) To abandon his body.
(b) To guide the people spiritually.
(c) To heal the individual.
(d) To convey religious intent to a population.

2. What happened to women who drank wine in Rome?
(a) They were beaten.
(b) They were murdered.
(c) They were killed.
(d) They were beheaded.

3. What was the purpose of having all these children?
(a) All of these.
(b) To provide workers to create alcohol.
(c) To provide workers to bolster the economy.
(d) To provide workers for the labor intensive cultivation of sugar.

4. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Speaking in tongues.
(c) Spontaneous outbursts of poetry.
(d) Neither of these.

5. What is the soul of poetic verse?
(a) Truth.
(b) Commitment.
(c) Love.
(d) Ecstasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Wife beating without alcohol is like _______?"

2. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?

3. What is a synonym to creode?

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

5. What supports the theory that the Eleusinian drink was ergotized beer?

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