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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is produced by language?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Ideas.
(c) People.
(d) Reality.

2. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?
(a) Africa is a nice place to live, so it must be where the early humans were from.
(b) The evidence is overwhelming that Africa is where humanity began.
(c) Africa is the most grassy of the continents so must be where mushrooms grew.
(d) Africa is the warmest of all the continents so must be where humanity began.

3. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?
(a) Neurologists and Anthropologists.
(b) Neurologists and Sociologists.
(c) Psychologists and Neurologists.
(d) Anthropologists and Psychologists.

4. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?
(a) Dona Caralina.
(b) Dona Carolina.
(c) Dona Catalina.
(d) Dona Ceraline.

5. The author originally believed that magic was a phenomenon of the...?
(a) Naive,
(b) Both of these.
(c) Primitive.
(d) Neither of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What particular family of active chemical compounds does McKenna believe affected human development?

2. Where are the ibogaine family of substances from?

3. Why didn't the author settle for the ayahuasca in the marketplace?

4. What did Carl Saur believe was the explanation for grasslands?

5. Where do the most powerful mutagens occur naturally?

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