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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 was the difference between the tobacco of the Classical Maya and that of which was distributed in Europe?
(a) It was far more addictive.
(b) It was euphoric.
(c) It induced a state of ecstasy.
(d) It was hallucinogenic.

2. What was the juice expelled from poppies used to treat in Saxon England?
(a) Sleeplessness.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Headaches.
(d) Both of these.

3. What does this form of civilization bring with it?
(a) Overproduction.
(b) All of these.
(c) Hoarding.
(d) Trade.

4. What according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?
(a) They were cognitive.
(b) They were stoned.
(c) All of these.
(d) They were adaptive.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Psilocybin mushrooms stain which color when bruised or broken?

4. What ended the glorification of nature and the planet as supreme spiritual forces?

5. What is the main problem with this theory?

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