2. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?
(a) To convey religious intent to a population.
(b) To heal the individual.
(c) To abandon his body.
(d) To guide the people spiritually.

3. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?
(a) In both these ways.
(b) They are dangerous.
(c) They are frivolous.
(d) In neither of these ways.

4. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?
(a) Fasting.
(b) Manipulation of breath.
(c) Drumming.
(d) Having intercourse.

5. What does this form of civilization bring with it?
(a) Overproduction.
(b) All of these.
(c) Trade.
(d) Hoarding.

6. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?
(a) The hypothalamus and the neocortex.
(b) Broca's area and the neocortex.
(c) The cerebral cortex and the neocortex.
(d) Broca's area and the cerebral cortex.

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

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

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

10. What do psychoactive plants allow a shaman to do?
(a) To feel good about himself.
(b) To manipulate the environment.
(c) To inflate their ego.
(d) Allow the healer to journey into an invisible realm of natural magic.

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

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

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

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

15. What unpleasant plants are also used by shamans?
(a) Brugmansias.
(b) All of these.
(c) Daturas.
(d) Virola based snuffs.