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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Canadian psychologist(s) found that patients treated for alcoholism with LSD improved?
(a) Humphrey Osmond.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Abram Hoffer.

2. What effect(s) does ergotized grain have on the body?
(a) All of these.
(b) It is vasoconstrictive.
(c) It is a hallucinogenic.
(d) It triggers the onset of labor.

3. What existed in the gangster subculture?
(a) All of these.
(b) Prostitution.
(c) Loan sharking.
(d) Various rackets.

4. What is the snake a symbol of regarding shamanic convention?
(a) The devil.
(b) The deceased.
(c) Evil.
(d) The reborn.

5. What is in the typical American diet?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) All of these.
(d) Meat.

6. What treaty legalized opium traffic in China?
(a) Treaty of Tientsin.
(b) Treaty of Tentsin.
(c) Treaty of Tentsin.
(d) Treaty of Telentsin.

7. Who had the ability to convey the visionary power of opium?
(a) Timothy Leary.
(b) Piranesi.
(c) Thomas De Quincey.
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

8. Demeter was the goddess of what, according to the Greeks?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Grain.
(c) Poppies.
(d) Both of these.

9. What was the purpose of having all these children?
(a) To provide workers to bolster the economy.
(b) All of these.
(c) To provide workers to create alcohol.
(d) To provide workers for the labor intensive cultivation of sugar.

10. What was the juice expelled from poppies used to treat in Saxon England?
(a) Sleeplessness.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Headaches.

11. What supports the theory that the Eleusinian drink was ergotized beer?
(a) At the Eleusis festival, grain was very important.
(b) Sir Arthur Evans unearthed vessels adorned with ears of barley.
(c) Ergot is a source of powerful alkaloids that can cause hallucinations.
(d) All of these.

12. In Egypt around the sixteen hundreds, opium was prescribed to whom?
(a) Crying children.
(b) Nursing mothers.
(c) Everyone.
(d) Expecting mothers.

13. Why what year was tobacco routinely smoked with opium in China?
(a) 1654.
(b) 1693.
(c) 1793.
(d) 1794.

14. When did chocolate reach France and England?
(a) The late 1600's.
(b) The late 1500's.
(c) The early 1700's.
(d) The 1650's.

15. Who could claim the dubious distinction of introducing slavery into the new world?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The French.
(c) The Italians.
(d) The British.

Short Answer Questions

1. How had the natural world come to be seen by the late Roman times?

2. What had sugar been known for centuries as?

3. What were plant(s) of European witchcraft?

4. What did the Maya use cacao beans for?

5. What was made by Raymond Lully?

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