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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 did the author find appalling?
(a) The shamanic world could be accessed by anyone, but no one had believed in it.
(b) That the shamanic world was more real than our own.
(c) That religion was a construct to eliminate the truth of shamanism.
(d) That the shamanic world offered truth and the real world offered lies.

2. What effect(s) does ergotized grain have on the body?
(a) It triggers the onset of labor.
(b) It is vasoconstrictive.
(c) It is a hallucinogenic.
(d) All of these.

3. Which writer is mentioned?
(a) Carlos Castaneda.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Mircea Eliade.
(d) Neither of these.

4. What mystery cult(s) existed on Crete in the fourth century, BC?
(a) Dionysian.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Eleusinian.

5. What were hemp preparations in wine used for?
(a) An empathetic.
(b) An anesthetic.
(c) An emphatic.
(d) A ecstatic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?

2. Of the animals present at the dig site mentioned, where were they from?

3. What ended the glorification of nature and the planet as supreme spiritual forces?

4. What is a common metaphor for Soma?

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

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