Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge Test | Final Test - Hard

Terence McKenna
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge Test | Final Test - Hard

Terence McKenna
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 was the first and most immediate payoff of the New World?

2. Where is the narcotic power in the cannabis plant?

3. What Canadian psychologist(s) found that patients treated for alcoholism with LSD improved?

4. What had sugar been known for centuries as?

5. What described the classification of 'hard drugs'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Old World belief regarding honeybees? Why is this of significance regarding the Partnership society?

2. Why is the use of the coca plant in the Amazon seen as a food?

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

4. Why do international intelligence agencies need to propagate narcotics?

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

6. Why aren't the positive effects of marijuana usage reported in America from scientists?

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

8. In what ways is alcohol a problem for society?

9. What was the difference in the tobacco's smoked by the natives in South America and the tobacco cultivated in Europe?

10. What was considered history's joke on Europe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What kinds of suggestions did McKenna make that offers the potential to reshape the way people look at their environment? How could this disrupt the current way of life? Would this be a good thing or a bad thing in your opinion? Why do you hold this position?

Essay Topic 3

Hypothesize the outcome of the legalization of all drugs. Would this create more or less of a problem in management? Why? How might society function with all drugs legalized? In what ways would society change? Explain your answer.

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