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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 happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?
(a) The soul is denigrated.
(b) The individual is intoxicated.
(c) The soul is scooped from the body.
(d) All of these.

2. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?
(a) Global politics.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Scientific industrialism.

3. What did the sugar craze promote and cause to further promote itself?
(a) Tea.
(b) Cocoa.
(c) Coffee.
(d) All of these.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?

3. Which writer is mentioned?

4. When did chocolate reach France and England?

5. What are allies friendly towards?

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