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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. What religion in Africa is hallucinogenic plant based?
(a) Iboga.
(b) Bwati.
(c) Bwiti.
(d) Bwratini.

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

3. What cognitive ability are humans not known for?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Dance.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Sport.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What goddess did the Paleolithic cult worship?

2. What is the name of the vines used in making ayahuasca?

3. Of the animals present at the dig site mentioned, where were they from?

4. What archaeological site has yielded a wealth of religious art?

5. What does this form of civilization bring with it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What has happened to communication techniques throughout evolution?

3. What psychological shift left European civilization at a disadvantage?

4. Why are the numbered paragraphs so important to humanity?

5. What important factor did women bring to language?

6. How can the Stropharia cubensis mushroom be seen as both male and female?

7. What are considered tools for the exploration of the human psyche? How are psychedelic shamans being considered as of recently again?

8. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

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

10. How does Western society regard healers? How is this a problem?

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