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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. Who had the ability to convey the visionary power of opium?
(a) Timothy Leary.
(b) Piranesi.
(c) Thomas De Quincey.
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

2. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Domestication.
(c) Animal breeding.
(d) Livestock.

3. What used to be considered 'god' and what do we call it now?
(a) Karma.
(b) None of these.
(c) Conscience.
(d) The ego.

4. 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.

5. In what year was a full years worth of opium sent up in smoke in China?
(a) 1840.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1850.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this form of civilization bring with it?

2. What was the difference between the tobacco of the Classical Maya and that of which was distributed in Europe?

3. What factors have brought human evolution to a halt?

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

5. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?

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