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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens where hallucinogenic plants do not occur?
(a) Cultural innovation doesn't provide any new information.
(b) Cultural innovation does not occur.
(c) Cultural innovation occurs very slowly if at all.
(d) Cultural innovation occurs at high speeds.

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

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

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

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

6. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?
(a) Human activity, specifically seasonal burning.
(b) Human activity, specifically agriculture.
(c) A natural occurrence where trees aren't in abundance.
(d) Human activity, specifically logging.

7. What is considered a product of cattle?
(a) All of these.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Manure.
(d) Meat.

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

9. What artistic style does a painting from Inaouanrhat in the Tassili resemble?
(a) Early Spanish.
(b) Egyptian.
(c) Early African.
(d) Grecian.

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

15. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?
(a) Women are transformed into a negative aspect.
(b) Women are praised but captive.
(c) All of these.
(d) Women aren't involved as they are in every other religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was important in the evolution of modern humans?

2. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?

3. What is the soul of poetic verse?

4. When did our estrangement from the conscious and the unconscious begin?

5. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?

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