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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is a grass containing DMT an unlikely source of material to boost the human consciousness?
(a) Humans didn't eat grass.
(b) Humans didn't graze.
(c) It would have to be extracted.
(d) It would have to be distilled.

2. When was the first sample of psilocybe cubensis collected?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1903.

3. What substances did the author use?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Psilocybin mushrooms.
(d) Ayahuasca.

4. Which writer is mentioned?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Carlos Castaneda.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Mircea Eliade.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the most powerful mutagens occur naturally?

2. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?

3. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?

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

5. Where does Terence McKenna believe Eden was?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what two ways can the Transcendent Other be described?

2. What would a culture that shifted back to being plant based be beneficial to today's culture?

3. What important factor did women bring to language?

4. What was Eliade's motive for exposing shamanism?

5. Up until what point did shamanism lose its grip on humanity?

6. In what ways is the shaman a remote ancestor of the poet and the artist?

7. What was noted physiologically with the evolution of language?

8. Why does cattle being a major motif in the Soma cult make little sense if Wasson is right?

9. What factor influenced the fall of the female deity as well as the separation of humans from the environment?

10. What are the two active chemical compounds in the Fly Agaric mushroom?

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