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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has been agreed on regarding Soma?
(a) It has hanging branches.
(b) All of these.
(c) It originates in the mountains.
(d) It is yellow in color.

3. What was the wave made of that the author rode?
(a) Water.
(b) Information.
(c) Air.
(d) Sand.

4. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?
(a) Early hominids were simply eaters.
(b) Early hominids wouldn't have had time to distill something.
(c) Preparation required time that the hominids, as hunter gatherers, didn't have.
(d) Preparation belonged to a more evolved group of hominids.

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

6. What is the soul of poetic verse?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Human emotion.
(c) All of these.
(d) Intoxication.

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

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

9. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?
(a) Africa is a nice place to live, so it must be where the early humans were from.
(b) Africa is the most grassy of the continents so must be where mushrooms grew.
(c) The evidence is overwhelming that Africa is where humanity began.
(d) Africa is the warmest of all the continents so must be where humanity began.

10. What isn't ecstasy?
(a) Hilarious.
(b) Familiar.
(c) Terrifying.
(d) A subservient experience.

11. What does a shaman get from entering the domain of plant intelligence?
(a) He becomes enraptured by this perspective and isn't able to leave.
(b) He becomes privileged to a higher dimensional perspective.
(c) He finds harmony with the environment.
(d) He finds answers to the life altering questions we all seek.

12. Why would mushrooms have been especially noticeable on the African grasslands?
(a) Their colors would have been intriguing.
(b) None of these.
(c) Their inviting smell.
(d) All of these.

13. What attitudes do allies have?
(a) They are intelligent and quiet.
(b) They are quiet and stupid.
(c) They are quiet and shy,
(d) They are pushy and insistent.

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

15. What are allies friendly towards?
(a) Our struggle to maintain composure in the face of our egos.
(b) All of these.
(c) Our attempt to become something greater than ourselves.
(d) Our struggle to birth ourselves as an intelligent species.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the built in recliners suggest?

2. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?

3. What female deities persisted in the patriarchal society?

4. After what point may a shaman have access to a superhuman plane?

5. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?

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