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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 artistic style does a painting from Inaouanrhat in the Tassili resemble?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Early Spanish.
(c) Early African.
(d) Grecian.

2. In Egypt around the sixteen hundreds, opium was prescribed to whom?
(a) Crying children.
(b) Nursing mothers.
(c) Expecting mothers.
(d) Everyone.

3. After what point may a shaman have access to a superhuman plane?
(a) After he has the experience of resurrection while in ecstasy.
(b) After he has gained the wisdom from the other plane.
(c) After he has graduated the "shamanism 101" course.
(d) After he has trained for fifteen years under the tutelage of a shaman.

4. Who was famed to be the father of chemotherapy?
(a) None of these.
(b) Parcelsus.
(c) Paracelsus.
(d) Plato.

5. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?
(a) China.
(b) None of these.
(c) North America.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had sugar been known for centuries as?

2. What does this form of civilization bring with it?

3. Demeter was the goddess of what, according to the Greeks?

4. What happened to women who drank wine in Rome?

5. Who had the ability to convey the visionary power of opium?

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