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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 were hemp preparations in wine used for?
(a) A ecstatic.
(b) An anesthetic.
(c) An empathetic.
(d) An emphatic.

2. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?
(a) Karma.
(b) The ego.
(c) None of these.
(d) Conscience.

3. What is the soul of poetic verse?
(a) Commitment.
(b) Truth.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Love.

4. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?
(a) Dona Ceraline.
(b) Dona Carolina.
(c) Dona Catalina.
(d) Dona Caralina.

5. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?
(a) He thought that the market place stuff would make him sick.
(b) There was no spiritual experience in it.
(c) The stuff sold was fake.
(d) Those who prepared it were charlatans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?

2. What did the sugar craze promote and cause to further promote itself?

3. What is produced by language?

4. What do psychoactive plants allow a shaman to do?

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

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