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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why would mushrooms have been especially noticeable on the African grasslands?

2. What is the soul of poetic verse?

3. What was the wave made of that the author rode?

4. What tree did the woman eat from?

5. What is twilight state thinking characterized by?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the two active chemical compounds in the Fly Agaric mushroom?

3. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

4. What did the Natufian culture bring to Palestine?

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

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

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

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

9. What is shamanism?

10. What factor influenced the fall of the female deity as well as the separation of humans from the environment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the current state of drug control. Do you think the model of regulation is effective? Why or why not? What should the government do about the 'drug problem' in America? Do you think McKenna was on the right track when he said that drugs should be legalized? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Explain McKenna's position on legal drugs. What are their origins? Why did they gain immediate popularity? What are their negative side effects? How prevalent are their usage today?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the legal substances as a form of control. If McKenna is right, then how are some of the illegal substances a form of liberation? How would these negatively impact the level of control the government could exert on the population?

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