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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 do the dancing shamans have in their hands and sticking out of their bodies?
(a) Light.
(b) None of these.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) People.

2. Where did the Goddess survive long after the dominator style had been in place everywhere else?
(a) Greece.
(b) Crete.
(c) France.
(d) Africa.

3. What do psychoactive plants allow a shaman to do?
(a) To manipulate the environment.
(b) To inflate their ego.
(c) To feel good about himself.
(d) Allow the healer to journey into an invisible realm of natural magic.

4. Of the animals present at the dig site mentioned, where were they from?
(a) India.
(b) Asia.
(c) Africa.
(d) Europe.

5. When was tobacco smoking introduced to Europe?
(a) In the fifteenth century.
(b) In the mid sixteenth century.
(c) In the sixteenth century.
(d) In the mid fifteenth century.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What particular family of active chemical compounds does McKenna believe affected human development?

3. What culture arrived in Palestine and offered an explosion in societal activities like art?

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

5. What were Greek wines?

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