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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 archaeological site has yielded a wealth of religious art?
(a) Catal Huyuk.
(b) Catal Huyak.
(c) Catal Hiyak.
(d) Caral Huyuk.

2. What does science fail to do?
(a) Educate the mind.
(b) Lift the human spirit.
(c) All of these.
(d) Nurture the soul.

3. What culture arrived in Palestine and offered an explosion in societal activities like art?
(a) None of these.
(b) The Tassili culture.
(c) The Paleolithic culture.
(d) The Natufian culture.

4. What particular family of active chemical compounds does McKenna believe affected human development?
(a) Imbibed hallucinogens.
(b) Infold hallucinogens.
(c) Indile hallucinogens.
(d) Indole hallucinogens.

5. What according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?
(a) They were cognitive.
(b) They were stoned.
(c) They were adaptive.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?

2. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?

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

4. What is interesting to note about Soma?

5. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of shamanic practices lead to ecstasy?

2. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

3. In what ways has Catal Huyuk puzzled archeologists?

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

5. What is the twentieth century linguistic revolution based on?

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

7. What did the Natufian culture bring to Palestine?

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

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

10. What is shamanism?

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