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

2. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?
(a) Manipulation of breath.
(b) Having intercourse.
(c) Fasting.
(d) Drumming.

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

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

5. What is twilight state thinking characterized by?
(a) A tendency to experience mild hallucinations.
(b) Loss of objectivity.
(c) All of these.
(d) Temporal distortion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is promoted by this toxic diet?

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

3. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?

4. What cognitive ability are humans not known for?

5. What substances did the author use?

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