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

2. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?
(a) Neurologists and Anthropologists.
(b) Psychologists and Neurologists.
(c) Neurologists and Sociologists.
(d) Anthropologists and Psychologists.

3. Why would mushrooms have been especially noticeable on the African grasslands?
(a) Their inviting smell.
(b) Their colors would have been intriguing.
(c) None of these.
(d) All of these.

4. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?
(a) Women aren't involved as they are in every other religion.
(b) Women are praised but captive.
(c) Women are transformed into a negative aspect.
(d) All of these.

5. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?
(a) The auditory impulse.
(b) The optical impulses.
(c) The linguistic impulse.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What attitudes do allies have?

2. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?

3. What according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?

4. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?

5. What intoxicant was imbibed by the tribes of Siberia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What important factor did women bring to language?

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

3. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

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

5. What does John Pfeiffer observe about Upper Paleolithic art?

6. What did the Natufian culture bring to Palestine?

7. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

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

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

10. The knowledge of what mystery was lost and what was the affect on humanity of this loss?

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