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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 main point(s) are offered against the fly agaric mushroom?
(a) All of these.
(b) The incorporation of cattle in the ritual makes no sense.
(c) It doesn't provide reliable ecstatic experiences.
(d) The experience is unpleasant in nature.

2. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?
(a) There was no spiritual experience in it.
(b) The stuff sold was fake.
(c) He thought that the market place stuff would make him sick.
(d) Those who prepared it were charlatans.

3. What is considered a product of cattle?
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) Meat.
(c) All of these.
(d) Manure.

4. What do the dancing shamans have in their hands and sticking out of their bodies?
(a) Light.
(b) None of these.
(c) People.
(d) Mushrooms.

5. "Shamanic ecstasy is is an act of _______..."?
(a) Fortification.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Unveiling the world around us.
(d) Surrender.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unpleasant plants are also used by shamans?

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

3. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?

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

5. Where does Terence McKenna believe Eden was?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

2. What is shamanism?

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

4. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

5. What is the difference between a dominator society and a partnership society?

6. What kinds of shamanic practices lead to ecstasy?

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

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

9. What two group activities acted to draw the hunter gatherer and tribal people closer together that modern civilization disdains?

10. In what regard do most Westerners hold magic and those that claim to be practitioners of it?

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