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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 main point(s) are offered against the fly agaric mushroom?
(a) The experience is unpleasant in nature.
(b) It doesn't provide reliable ecstatic experiences.
(c) All of these.
(d) The incorporation of cattle in the ritual makes no sense.

2. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?
(a) There was no spiritual experience in it.
(b) He thought that the market place stuff would make him sick.
(c) Those who prepared it were charlatans.
(d) The stuff sold was fake.

3. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Global politics.
(c) Scientific industrialism.
(d) Both of these.

4. What attitudes do allies have?
(a) They are quiet and stupid.
(b) They are quiet and shy,
(c) They are intelligent and quiet.
(d) They are pushy and insistent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What cognitive ability are humans not known for?

2. "Shamanic ecstasy is is an act of _______..."?

3. What tree did the woman eat from?

4. Which mushroom will take the projection of male or female energy with equal ease?

5. What is interesting to note about the Soma deity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In what ways has Catal Huyuk puzzled archeologists?

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

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

6. Why does cattle being a major motif in the Soma cult make little sense if Wasson is right?

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

8. Why are the numbered paragraphs so important to humanity?

9. What is shamanism?

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

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