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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 would separate the psychoactive alkaloids from those that are deadly in ergotized grain?

2. In Egypt around the sixteen hundreds, opium was prescribed to whom?

3. What was No. 4 China White?

4. When is Cannabis akin to a hallucinogen?

5. During the golden age of Athens, how many of the population were slaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the reasonable course of action regarding substance use?

2. What is the difference between heroin and tobacco regarding addiction?

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

4. What things occurred in the fermentation process of the grape? What happened spiritually?

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

6. What are the downsides to coffee addiction?

7. How did the mystery get abandoned?

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

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

Discuss the purpose and benefits from the perspective of a government to having a consumerist population. How is this contrary to what McKenna suggests? What would change socially if this perspective did as well? How would this be contrary to the desires of a governmental establishment?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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