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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Opium and Tobacco.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Eastern philosophy call the dissolution of the ego?
(a) None of these.
(b) The Tao.
(c) The rapture.
(d) Enlightenment.

4. What often went hand in hand with alcohol?
(a) All of these.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Anger.
(d) Violence.

5. Who could claim the dubious distinction of introducing slavery into the new world?
(a) The British.
(b) The French.
(c) The Italians.
(d) The Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the juice expelled from poppies used to treat in Saxon England?

2. What do psychoactive plants allow a shaman to do?

3. Who was histories first death from opium overdose?

4. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?

5. What archaeological site has yielded a wealth of religious art?

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