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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens where hallucinogenic plants do not occur?
(a) Cultural innovation doesn't provide any new information.
(b) Cultural innovation occurs at high speeds.
(c) Cultural innovation does not occur.
(d) Cultural innovation occurs very slowly if at all.

2. What tree did the woman eat from?
(a) The Tree of Knowledge.
(b) Both of these.
(c) The Tree of Life.
(d) Either of these.

3. What cognitive ability are humans not known for?
(a) Sport.
(b) Dance.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Philosophy.

4. What is interesting to note about the Soma deity?
(a) It is male and lunar.
(b) It is lunar.
(c) It is asexual.
(d) None of these.

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

6. What questions do humans find most interesting?
(a) Towards what fate do we move?
(b) All of these.
(c) Who are we?
(d) Where did we come from?

7. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?
(a) Preparation belonged to a more evolved group of hominids.
(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) Early hominids were simply eaters.

8. What archaeological site has yielded a wealth of religious art?
(a) Catal Huyuk.
(b) Caral Huyuk.
(c) Catal Huyak.
(d) Catal Hiyak.

9. After what point may a shaman have access to a superhuman plane?
(a) After he has graduated the "shamanism 101" course.
(b) After he has gained the wisdom from the other plane.
(c) After he has trained for fifteen years under the tutelage of a shaman.
(d) After he has the experience of resurrection while in ecstasy.

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

11. What do the dancing shamans have in their hands and sticking out of their bodies?
(a) People.
(b) Light.
(c) None of these.
(d) Mushrooms.

12. What female deities persisted in the patriarchal society?
(a) The cult of Kali.
(b) The cult of Mary.
(c) The divine Parusha.
(d) All of these.

13. Why is a grass containing DMT an unlikely source of material to boost the human consciousness?
(a) It would have to be extracted.
(b) It would have to be distilled.
(c) Humans didn't eat grass.
(d) Humans didn't graze.

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

15. What is twilight state thinking characterized by?
(a) Loss of objectivity.
(b) A tendency to experience mild hallucinations.
(c) All of these.
(d) Temporal distortion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the soul of poetic verse?

3. What happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?

4. Of the animals present at the dig site mentioned, where were they from?

5. What isn't ecstasy?

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