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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 is twilight state thinking characterized by?
(a) A tendency to experience mild hallucinations.
(b) Loss of objectivity.
(c) Temporal distortion.
(d) All of these.

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

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

4. What isn't ecstasy?
(a) Familiar.
(b) A subservient experience.
(c) Hilarious.
(d) Terrifying.

5. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?
(a) Early hominids wouldn't have had time to distill something.
(b) Early hominids were simply eaters.
(c) Preparation belonged to a more evolved group of hominids.
(d) Preparation required time that the hominids, as hunter gatherers, didn't have.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author learn about in India regarding religion?

2. What factors have brought human evolution to a halt?

3. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?

4. The author originally believed that magic was a phenomenon of the...?

5. What was prominent on all images depicting the father of the Goddess?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the Natufian culture bring to Palestine?

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

4. What is shamanism?

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

6. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

7. What has happened to communication techniques throughout evolution?

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

9. What kinds of shamanic practices lead to ecstasy?

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

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