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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 supports the theory that the Eleusinian drink was ergotized beer?
(a) All of these.
(b) Sir Arthur Evans unearthed vessels adorned with ears of barley.
(c) At the Eleusis festival, grain was very important.
(d) Ergot is a source of powerful alkaloids that can cause hallucinations.

2. What was made by Raymond Lully?
(a) Brandy.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Bourbon.
(d) Scotch.

3. Why what year was tobacco routinely smoked with opium in China?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1654.
(c) 1693.
(d) 1793.

4. What was the first synthetic drug?
(a) Opium.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Heroin.

5. What would separate the psychoactive alkaloids from those that are deadly in ergotized grain?
(a) The fermentation process of the grain.
(b) Macerating the grain in wine.
(c) Macerating the grain in water.
(d) Macerating the grain in pigs fat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most powerful of all hallucinogens?

2. What was the newest and most addictive drug introduced to society?

3. What was No. 4 China White?

4. Under which science was to advance our knowledge of hallucinogenics?

5. What were Greek wines?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did coffee and tea support the sugar trade?

2. Why is watching television comparable to narcotic addiction? What properties support this? How might it be worse?

3. In what ways were opium ingested and what sparked the change in ingestion?

4. How could Glaukos represent the Stropharia cubensis mushroom?

5. What is the difference between ayahuasca and DMT hallucinations?

6. If cannabis was legal, what would it do to influence social structure?

7. What motifs of a barely remembered mushroom cult are evident in the story of Glaukos?

8. What do the governments gain in the visible suppression of morphine, heroin, and cocaine?

9. What did LSD do to the population, and how did it bring about the sixties?

10. What of Marco Polo's adventures in the mysterious East may have blackened Cannabis' reputation?

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