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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What questions do humans find most interesting?
(a) All of these.
(b) Towards what fate do we move?
(c) Where did we come from?
(d) Who are we?

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

3. What intoxicant was imbibed by the tribes of Siberia?
(a) Amanita bisporigera.
(b) Amanita phalloids.
(c) Amanita muscaria.
(d) Amanita lanei

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?
(a) China.
(b) North America.
(c) None of these.
(d) India.

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

14. When did our estrangement from the conscious and the unconscious begin?
(a) About two thousand years ago.
(b) About three thousand years ago.
(c) About a thousand years ago.
(d) About four thousand years ago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is interesting to note about Soma?

2. Where might this form of civilization began?

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

4. What factors have brought human evolution to a halt?

5. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?

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