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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 Wise Goddess.
(c) The Great Horned Goddess.
(d) The Great Winged Goddess.

2. What are allies friendly towards?
(a) Our struggle to maintain composure in the face of our egos.
(b) All of these.
(c) Our attempt to become something greater than ourselves.
(d) Our struggle to birth ourselves as an intelligent species.

3. What according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?
(a) They were adaptive.
(b) They were cognitive.
(c) They were stoned.
(d) All of these.

4. What is twilight state thinking characterized by?
(a) Temporal distortion.
(b) All of these.
(c) A tendency to experience mild hallucinations.
(d) Loss of objectivity.

5. What intoxicant was imbibed by the tribes of Siberia?
(a) Amanita phalloids.
(b) Amanita muscaria.
(c) Amanita lanei
(d) Amanita bisporigera.

Short Answer Questions

1. What substances did the author use?

2. What is a synonym to creode?

3. The author originally believed that magic was a phenomenon of the...?

4. When did the preparation of visionary Soma cease?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Western society regard healers? How is this a problem?

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

4. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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