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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. What plant is considered not only a hallucinogen, but also an aphrodisiac?

2. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?

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

4. What was prominent on all images depicting the father of the Goddess?

5. What religion in Africa is hallucinogenic plant based?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the Natufian culture bring to Palestine?

3. What is the difference between a dominator society and a partnership society?

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

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

6. What important factor did women bring to language?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss McKenna's idea to introduce a two hundred percent federal tax on alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. What might these funds be allocated for? How could the government benefit from such a legalization? How does cannabis legalization alone promise to net the government far more in taxes than alcohol and tobacco combined? What information supports that theory?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the book. What bias is presented in its layout? How does it display this bias in its representation? In what ways could the book have been given a more two sided approach? What would have been your opinion of it had this been the case?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss shamanic ritualized use of mushrooms. Should it be classified as a religion and therefore practicable by all? Why or why not? According to McKenna, what sort of 'divine experience' is possible on indole hallucinogens? Is this the worship of a false idol? Why or why not?

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