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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of the animals present at the dig site mentioned, where were they from?
(a) India.
(b) Africa.
(c) Asia.
(d) Europe.

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

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

4. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?
(a) Global politics.
(b) Scientific industrialism.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

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

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

7. 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.

8. What is the soul of poetic verse?
(a) Love.
(b) Ecstasy.
(c) Truth.
(d) Commitment.

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

10. What plant is considered not only a hallucinogen, but also an aphrodisiac?
(a) Stropharia cubensis.
(b) Peganum harmala.
(c) Bwiti.
(d) Iboga.

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

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

13. In what pharmacological areas has LSD aided humanity?
(a) Psychotherapy.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Treatment of chronic alcoholism.
(d) Both of these.

14. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?
(a) Dona Carolina.
(b) Dona Ceraline.
(c) Dona Catalina.
(d) Dona Caralina.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which writer is mentioned?

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

3. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?

4. What did the built in recliners suggest?

5. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?

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