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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anticipating the Archaic Parade.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion in Africa is hallucinogenic plant based?
(a) Bwati.
(b) Bwratini.
(c) Bwiti.
(d) Iboga.

2. Who was famed to be the father of chemotherapy?
(a) Parcelsus.
(b) Plato.
(c) Paracelsus.
(d) None of these.

3. What supports the theory that the Eleusinian drink was ergotized beer?
(a) All of these.
(b) Sir Arthur Evans unearthed vessels adorned with ears of barley.
(c) Ergot is a source of powerful alkaloids that can cause hallucinations.
(d) At the Eleusis festival, grain was very important.

4. Why did the Japanese produce vast amounts of opium and heroin for distribution in China?
(a) To manipulate the government into fixing the problem.
(b) To gain a profit.
(c) To create a distraction for the people.
(d) To make the Chinese population too weak to resist occupation.

5. Demeter was the goddess of what, according to the Greeks?
(a) Poppies.
(b) Grain.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Cannabis akin to a hallucinogen?

2. What did the author find appalling?

3. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?

4. When was the Doors of Perception written?

5. What is the most powerful of all hallucinogens?

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