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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where might this form of civilization began?
(a) Turkey.
(b) France.
(c) Africa.
(d) None of these.

3. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?
(a) The ego.
(b) Conscience.
(c) None of these.
(d) Karma.

4. What was important in the evolution of modern humans?
(a) The thinning and shortening of the arm bones.
(b) The thinning of the cranial bones.
(c) Singing.
(d) Talking.

5. What is a common metaphor for Soma?
(a) The pig.
(b) The bull.
(c) The sheep.
(d) The cow.

6. What is the angel with the flashing sword representing?
(a) The harshness of the desert environment.
(b) The vengeful and ego driven god.
(c) The competitive nature of the world.
(d) All of these.

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

8. What is the notion of illegal plants?
(a) Sane and objective.
(b) Obnoxious but sensible.
(c) Obnoxious but objective.
(d) Obnoxious and ridiculous.

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

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

11. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?
(a) He thought that the market place stuff would make him sick.
(b) The stuff sold was fake.
(c) There was no spiritual experience in it.
(d) Those who prepared it were charlatans.

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

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

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

15. What is the modern incarnation of the Shaman?
(a) There aren't any modern shamans.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Artists,
(d) Poets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this form of civilization bring with it?

2. What did the author find appalling?

3. What substances did the author use?

4. What isn't ecstasy?

5. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?

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