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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. When was smoking itself introduced in Europe?
(a) None of these.
(b) When the Indo-Europeans migrated and brought it with them.
(c) When Columbus came back from his second trip to the New World.
(d) When Columbus came back the first time from the New World.

2. What was the first synthetic drug?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Opium.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Cocaine.

3. What was likely to be America's greatest agricultural product?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Hemp.
(d) Corn.

4. What intoxicant was imbibed by the tribes of Siberia?
(a) Amanita phalloids.
(b) Amanita lanei
(c) Amanita muscaria.
(d) Amanita bisporigera.

5. How big was the tea industry in England?
(a) It took up 8% of England's gross domestic product.
(b) England was the primary consumer of tea beverages.
(c) It took up 5% of England's gross domestic product.
(d) It took up 6% of England's gross domestic product.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Cannabis native to?

2. What female deities persisted in the patriarchal society?

3. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?

4. What had sugar been known for centuries as?

5. What myth or story is explained in this chapter?

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