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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What main point(s) are offered against the fly agaric mushroom?
(a) The experience is unpleasant in nature.
(b) All of these.
(c) It doesn't provide reliable ecstatic experiences.
(d) The incorporation of cattle in the ritual makes no sense.

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

3. Why might Zoroaster have banned Soma?
(a) He objected to altered states of mind.
(b) He objected to the bull sacrifice that was a part of the ritual.
(c) He was greatly influenced by the Christian religion that was forming.
(d) He thought of all altered states of mind as witchcraft.

4. What is the name of the vines used in making ayahuasca?
(a) Lonicera sempervirens.
(b) Campsis-radicans.
(c) Wisteria sinensis.
(d) The Banisteriopsis vines.

5. What was prominent on all images depicting the father of the Goddess?
(a) All of these.
(b) The staff.
(c) The headgear.
(d) The shirt.

6. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?
(a) In the male hunters.
(b) In the women gatherers.
(c) In the children gatherers.
(d) All of these.

7. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?
(a) They are dangerous.
(b) They are frivolous.
(c) In neither of these ways.
(d) In both these ways.

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

9. What do psychoactive plants allow a shaman to do?
(a) To feel good about himself.
(b) To inflate their ego.
(c) To manipulate the environment.
(d) Allow the healer to journey into an invisible realm of natural magic.

10. What culture arrived in Palestine and offered an explosion in societal activities like art?
(a) The Tassili culture.
(b) The Paleolithic culture.
(c) The Natufian culture.
(d) None of these.

11. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?
(a) The linguistic impulse.
(b) The auditory impulse.
(c) The optical impulses.
(d) All of these.

12. Where is the answer located on how to achieve balance within the environment?
(a) Both of these.
(b) In Third World countries.
(c) In aboriginal reserves.
(d) Neither of these.

13. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?
(a) Livestock.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Domestication.
(d) Animal breeding.

14. When was the first sample of psilocybe cubensis collected?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1903.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was important in the evolution of modern humans?

2. "Shamanic ecstasy is is an act of _______..."?

3. What is the notion of illegal plants?

4. What did the author find appalling?

5. Why would mushrooms have been especially noticeable on the African grasslands?

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