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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was important in the evolution of modern humans?
(a) The thinning of the cranial bones.
(b) Talking.
(c) The thinning and shortening of the arm bones.
(d) Singing.

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

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

4. What did the author learn about in India regarding religion?
(a) It is no more than a hustle.
(b) It is a world of lies shrouded in fantasy.
(c) It is created by charlatans as a form of subservience.
(d) It is a clever sales technique.

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

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

7. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?
(a) Livestock.
(b) Domestication.
(c) Animal breeding.
(d) Agriculture.

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

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

10. What archaeological site has yielded a wealth of religious art?
(a) Catal Huyak.
(b) Catal Huyuk.
(c) Caral Huyuk.
(d) Catal Hiyak.

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

12. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?
(a) Conscience.
(b) The ego.
(c) Karma.
(d) None of these.

13. What do the dancing shamans have in their hands and sticking out of their bodies?
(a) People.
(b) None of these.
(c) Light.
(d) Mushrooms.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What female deities persisted in the patriarchal society?

2. What particular family of active chemical compounds does McKenna believe affected human development?

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

4. What was the wave made of that the author rode?

5. What is twilight state thinking characterized by?

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