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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Opium and Tobacco.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the snake a symbol of regarding shamanic convention?
(a) The reborn.
(b) Evil.
(c) The deceased.
(d) The devil.

2. Where do the 'old ways' still reside?
(a) Midwifery.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Herbalism.
(d) In all of these.

3. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?
(a) Broca's area and the neocortex.
(b) The cerebral cortex and the neocortex.
(c) The hypothalamus and the neocortex.
(d) Broca's area and the cerebral cortex.

4. What myth or story is explained in this chapter?
(a) The one of Polyidos.
(b) The one of Persephone.
(c) The one of Glaukos.
(d) The one of King Minos.

5. What mystery cult(s) existed on Crete in the fourth century, BC?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Dionysian.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Eleusinian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had caused the abandonment of Catal Huyuk?

2. What treaty legalized opium traffic in China?

3. What was the first and most immediate payoff of the New World?

4. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?

5. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?

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