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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been agreed on regarding Soma?
(a) All of these.
(b) It is yellow in color.
(c) It has hanging branches.
(d) It originates in the mountains.

2. What particular family of active chemical compounds does McKenna believe affected human development?
(a) Indole hallucinogens.
(b) Indile hallucinogens.
(c) Imbibed hallucinogens.
(d) Infold hallucinogens.

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

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

5. Which writer is mentioned?
(a) Mircea Eliade.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Carlos Castaneda.

6. What factors have brought human evolution to a halt?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Our sheer numbers.
(d) The rise of communications.

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

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

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

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

11. Where do the most powerful mutagens occur naturally?
(a) In plants.
(b) In fungi.
(c) In animals.
(d) In trees.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?

2. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?

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

4. What culture arrived in Palestine and offered an explosion in societal activities like art?

5. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?

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