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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author find appalling?
(a) That the shamanic world offered truth and the real world offered lies.
(b) That religion was a construct to eliminate the truth of shamanism.
(c) That the shamanic world was more real than our own.
(d) The shamanic world could be accessed by anyone, but no one had believed in it.

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

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

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

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

6. What is a synonym to creode?
(a) Creed.
(b) Avoid-ability.
(c) Preference.
(d) Habit.

7. What according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?
(a) They were adaptive.
(b) They were stoned.
(c) They were cognitive.
(d) All of these.

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

9. What does Eastern philosophy call the dissolution of the ego?
(a) None of these.
(b) The Tao.
(c) The rapture.
(d) Enlightenment.

10. What did the built in recliners suggest?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) That curing had been a part of the rites.
(d) That midwifery had been part of the rites.

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

12. What is interesting to note about Soma?
(a) The substance it is prepared from still has yet to be identified.
(b) It is, in affect a cure all and life extender.
(c) No praise seems to be enough for the substance.
(d) All of these.

13. What is shamanism?
(a) Divination.
(b) All of these.
(c) Theatrical performance.
(d) Healing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the most powerful mutagens occur naturally?

2. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?

3. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?

4. What plant is considered not only a hallucinogen, but also an aphrodisiac?

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

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