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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?
(a) Human activity, specifically seasonal burning.
(b) A natural occurrence where trees aren't in abundance.
(c) Human activity, specifically agriculture.
(d) Human activity, specifically logging.

2. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?
(a) Broca's area and the neocortex.
(b) The hypothalamus and the neocortex.
(c) Broca's area and the cerebral cortex.
(d) The cerebral cortex and the neocortex.

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

4. In what pharmacological areas has LSD aided humanity?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Psychotherapy.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Treatment of chronic alcoholism.

5. When did the preparation of visionary Soma cease?
(a) All of these.
(b) When the rise of Christianity ensued.
(c) When the Indo-Europeans stopped migrating.
(d) When patriarchy became dominant.

6. What is considered a product of cattle?
(a) Meat.
(b) All of these.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Manure.

7. What artistic style does a painting from Inaouanrhat in the Tassili resemble?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Early Spanish.
(c) Early African.
(d) Grecian.

8. What is produced by language?
(a) Ideas.
(b) People.
(c) Reality.
(d) Fiction.

9. When did our estrangement from the conscious and the unconscious begin?
(a) About three thousand years ago.
(b) About two thousand years ago.
(c) About a thousand years ago.
(d) About four thousand years ago.

10. What did the author learn about in India regarding religion?
(a) It is a world of lies shrouded in fantasy.
(b) It is created by charlatans as a form of subservience.
(c) It is no more than a hustle.
(d) It is a clever sales technique.

11. Where does Terence McKenna believe Eden was?
(a) The Tasili n Agger.
(b) All of these.
(c) The Tasilli n Ajjer.
(d) The Tassili n Ajjer.

12. What does science fail to do?
(a) Nurture the soul.
(b) All of these.
(c) Educate the mind.
(d) Lift the human spirit.

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

14. What goddess did the Paleolithic cult worship?
(a) The Great Mother Goddess.
(b) The Great Winged Goddess.
(c) The Great Wise Goddess.
(d) The Great Horned Goddess.

15. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Speaking in tongues.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Spontaneous outbursts of poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What attitudes do allies have?

2. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?

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

4. What is the angel with the flashing sword representing?

5. What is the soul of poetic verse?

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