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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What myth or story is explained in this chapter?
(a) The one of Persephone.
(b) The one of King Minos.
(c) The one of Polyidos.
(d) The one of Glaukos.

2. Who's crusade against marijuana created a public hysteria?
(a) Henry J Anslinger.
(b) Harry J Anslinger.
(c) Henry K Anslinger.
(d) Walter M Anslinger.

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

4. Who publicly wrote the Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide?
(a) O.T. Oss and O.N Oeric.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Terence McKenna and his brother.
(d) Both of these.

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

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

7. Who was famed to be the father of chemotherapy?
(a) Paracelsus.
(b) Plato.
(c) None of these.
(d) Parcelsus.

8. What kind of substance is honey?
(a) Purifying.
(b) Preserving.
(c) Magical.
(d) All of these.

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

10. Where were women paid to produce as many children as possible?
(a) China.
(b) Brazil.
(c) What is now Indonesia.
(d) Mexico.

11. What ended the glorification of nature and the planet as supreme spiritual forces?
(a) The rise of Catholicism.
(b) The rise of Christianity.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

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

13. What group had proven itself unable to resist involvement in the world narcotics trade?
(a) The French secret service.
(b) Opus Dei.
(c) All of these.
(d) The CIA.

14. Which was the most important of the trading companies?
(a) The East British Trading Company of the Indies.
(b) The East British-India Trading Company.
(c) The East India Trading Company.
(d) The British East India Company.

15. What mystery cult(s) existed on Crete in the fourth century, BC?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Dionysian.
(d) Eleusinian.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was smoking itself introduced in Europe?

2. What existed in the gangster subculture?

3. What was the present mode of culturally acceptable recreational drug use?

4. During the golden age of Athens, how many of the population were slaves?

5. Why were the stimulant properties in coffee and tea the ideal drug of the industrial revolution?

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