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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?
(a) China.
(b) None of these.
(c) North America.
(d) India.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the most powerful mutagens occur naturally?

2. What is the soul of poetic verse?

3. What happens where hallucinogenic plants do not occur?

4. What is considered a product of cattle?

5. Which writer is mentioned?

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