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

2. What is the angel with the flashing sword representing?
(a) All of these.
(b) The vengeful and ego driven god.
(c) The competitive nature of the world.
(d) The harshness of the desert environment.

3. What is the modern incarnation of the Shaman?
(a) Poets.
(b) There aren't any modern shamans.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Artists,

4. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?
(a) Dona Catalina.
(b) Dona Caralina.
(c) Dona Carolina.
(d) Dona Ceraline.

5. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?
(a) The cerebral cortex and the neocortex.
(b) Broca's area and the cerebral cortex.
(c) Broca's area and the neocortex.
(d) The hypothalamus and the neocortex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?

2. What are allies friendly towards?

3. After what point may a shaman have access to a superhuman plane?

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

5. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

5. What kinds of shamanic practices lead to ecstasy?

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

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

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

9. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

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

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