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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 goddess did the Paleolithic cult worship?
(a) The Great Mother Goddess.
(b) The Great Horned Goddess.
(c) The Great Winged Goddess.
(d) The Great Wise Goddess.

2. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?
(a) All of these.
(b) In the male hunters.
(c) In the women gatherers.
(d) In the children gatherers.

3. What was important in the evolution of modern humans?
(a) The thinning and shortening of the arm bones.
(b) Singing.
(c) Talking.
(d) The thinning of the cranial bones.

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

5. What is the soul of poetic verse?
(a) Intoxication.
(b) All of these.
(c) Human emotion.
(d) Ecstasy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?

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

3. What did the author find appalling?

4. What does a shaman get from entering the domain of plant intelligence?

5. What attitudes do allies have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What are considered tools for the exploration of the human psyche? How are psychedelic shamans being considered as of recently again?

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

6. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

7. The knowledge of what mystery was lost and what was the affect on humanity of this loss?

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

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

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

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