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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did cocaine and heroin become illegal in the USA?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1905.

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

3. What were hemp preparations in wine used for?
(a) An empathetic.
(b) An emphatic.
(c) A ecstatic.
(d) An anesthetic.

4. What was likely to be America's greatest agricultural product?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Hemp.
(c) Corn.
(d) Marijuana.

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

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

7. What is the most powerful of all hallucinogens?
(a) Psilocybin.
(b) MDA.
(c) MDMA.
(d) DMT.

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

9. When is Cannabis akin to a hallucinogen?
(a) When the plant itself is smoked.
(b) When hashish is smoked.
(c) When hashish is eaten.
(d) All of these.

10. Psilocybin mushrooms stain which color when bruised or broken?
(a) Greenish.
(b) Bluish.
(c) Reddish.
(d) Grayish.

11. What happened to women who drank wine in Rome?
(a) They were beaten.
(b) They were killed.
(c) They were murdered.
(d) They were beheaded.

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

13. What was the difference between the tobacco of the Classical Maya and that of which was distributed in Europe?
(a) It was far more addictive.
(b) It was hallucinogenic.
(c) It induced a state of ecstasy.
(d) It was euphoric.

14. What had caused the abandonment of Catal Huyuk?
(a) Fires.
(b) Disease.
(c) All of these.
(d) Drought.

15. Where is the narcotic power in the cannabis plant?
(a) In the male of the species.
(b) In the female of the species.
(c) In both of these.
(d) In neither of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the legalization of marijuana a complex issue?

2. What was the last bastion(s) of paganism?

3. Who was histories first death from opium overdose?

4. What often went hand in hand with alcohol?

5. What was the reason for the American government to make the emphasis off of heroin and onto cocaine?

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