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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 ended the glorification of nature and the planet as supreme spiritual forces?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) The rise of Catholicism.
(c) Both of these.
(d) The rise of Christianity.

2. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?
(a) Preparation belonged to a more evolved group of hominids.
(b) Early hominids were simply eaters.
(c) Early hominids wouldn't have had time to distill something.
(d) Preparation required time that the hominids, as hunter gatherers, didn't have.

3. Who was histories first death from opium overdose?
(a) Avarcinna.
(b) Avincina.
(c) Avicenna.
(d) Avarcinta.

4. What according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?
(a) All of these.
(b) They were adaptive.
(c) They were cognitive.
(d) They were stoned.

5. What is the angel with the flashing sword representing?
(a) All of these.
(b) The competitive nature of the world.
(c) The vengeful and ego driven god.
(d) The harshness of the desert environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author find appalling?

2. What questions do humans find most interesting?

3. What was the difference between the tobacco of the Classical Maya and that of which was distributed in Europe?

4. What is twilight state thinking characterized by?

5. What unpleasant plants are also used by shamans?

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