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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 a common metaphor for Soma?
(a) The cow.
(b) The sheep.
(c) The bull.
(d) The pig.

2. What was the wave made of that the author rode?
(a) Air.
(b) Sand.
(c) Water.
(d) Information.

3. Which mushroom will take the projection of male or female energy with equal ease?
(a) Psilocybe cubensis.
(b) Stropharia cubensis.
(c) Psilocybe mexicana.
(d) Amanita muscaria.

4. Why might Zoroaster have banned Soma?
(a) He thought of all altered states of mind as witchcraft.
(b) He was greatly influenced by the Christian religion that was forming.
(c) He objected to altered states of mind.
(d) He objected to the bull sacrifice that was a part of the ritual.

5. What was prominent on all images depicting the father of the Goddess?
(a) All of these.
(b) The staff.
(c) The shirt.
(d) The headgear.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what pharmacological areas has LSD aided humanity?

3. What is considered a product of cattle?

4. What plant is considered not only a hallucinogen, but also an aphrodisiac?

5. What happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What kinds of shamanic practices lead to ecstasy?

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

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

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

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