View a FREE sample

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. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?
(a) All of these.
(b) In the male hunters.
(c) In the women gatherers.
(d) In the children gatherers.

2. On what day was tobacco first introduced into Europe?
(a) November 3, 1492.
(b) November 2, 1493.
(c) November 2, 1492.
(d) December 8, 1652.

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

4. What would separate the psychoactive alkaloids from those that are deadly in ergotized grain?
(a) The fermentation process of the grain.
(b) Macerating the grain in wine.
(c) Macerating the grain in water.
(d) Macerating the grain in pigs fat.

5. What effect(s) does ergotized grain have on the body?
(a) All of these.
(b) It triggers the onset of labor.
(c) It is a hallucinogenic.
(d) It is vasoconstrictive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What according to McKenna seems to be the unique characteristic of the hominids?

3. What mystery cult(s) existed on Crete in the fourth century, BC?

4. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?

5. Where did the Goddess survive long after the dominator style had been in place everywhere else?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 227 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample