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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?
(a) Neurologists and Sociologists.
(b) Psychologists and Neurologists.
(c) Anthropologists and Psychologists.
(d) Neurologists and Anthropologists.

2. After what point may a shaman have access to a superhuman plane?
(a) After he has gained the wisdom from the other plane.
(b) After he has trained for fifteen years under the tutelage of a shaman.
(c) After he has the experience of resurrection while in ecstasy.
(d) After he has graduated the "shamanism 101" course.

3. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?
(a) The evidence is overwhelming that Africa is where humanity began.
(b) Africa is a nice place to live, so it must be where the early humans were from.
(c) Africa is the most grassy of the continents so must be where mushrooms grew.
(d) Africa is the warmest of all the continents so must be where humanity began.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?
(a) Early hominids wouldn't have had time to distill something.
(b) Early hominids were simply eaters.
(c) Preparation belonged to a more evolved group of hominids.
(d) Preparation required time that the hominids, as hunter gatherers, didn't have.

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

9. What is shamanism?
(a) Divination.
(b) All of these.
(c) Theatrical performance.
(d) Healing.

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

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

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

13. What isn't ecstasy?
(a) Familiar.
(b) Hilarious.
(c) Terrifying.
(d) A subservient experience.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?

2. "Shamanic ecstasy is is an act of _______..."?

3. In what pharmacological areas has LSD aided humanity?

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

5. What according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?

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