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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. Who's crusade against marijuana created a public hysteria?

2. "Wife beating without alcohol is like _______?"

3. What were Greek wines?

4. What group had proven itself unable to resist involvement in the world narcotics trade?

5. Cannabis is second only to which plant in promoting partnership?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the mystery get abandoned?

2. What was indicative of an influx in feminine values?

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

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

5. What is the strongest argument for the legalization of any drug?

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

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

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

9. What were the first of the Europeans to outlaw tobacco? What affect did this have on consumption?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Discuss Soma. What intriguing notions does this substance offer, according to the lore? How are these substances apt to be exaggerations? What of them might be true? What is the problem with ascertaining exactly what substance Soma actually could be?

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