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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. Where is the answer located on how to achieve balance within the environment?
(a) In aboriginal reserves.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) In Third World countries.

2. What religion in Africa is hallucinogenic plant based?
(a) Bwratini.
(b) Bwiti.
(c) Iboga.
(d) Bwati.

3. What did the author learn about in India regarding religion?
(a) It is created by charlatans as a form of subservience.
(b) It is a clever sales technique.
(c) It is no more than a hustle.
(d) It is a world of lies shrouded in fantasy.

4. Where does Terence McKenna believe Eden was?
(a) The Tassili n Ajjer.
(b) The Tasili n Agger.
(c) The Tasilli n Ajjer.
(d) All of these.

5. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?
(a) Manipulation of breath.
(b) Drumming.
(c) Having intercourse.
(d) Fasting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why might Zoroaster have banned Soma?

2. What are allies friendly towards?

3. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?

4. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?

5. What substances did the author use?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the two active chemical compounds in the Fly Agaric mushroom?

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

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

5. What has happened to communication techniques throughout evolution?

6. What important factor did women bring to language?

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

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

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

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

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