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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Plant and Primates: Postcards from the Stoned Age.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What substances did the author use?
(a) Psilocybin mushrooms.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Ayahuasca.
(d) Neither of these.

4. 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 warmest of all the continents so must be where humanity began.
(d) Africa is the most grassy of the continents so must be where mushrooms grew.

5. Why is a grass containing DMT an unlikely source of material to boost the human consciousness?
(a) It would have to be distilled.
(b) Humans didn't graze.
(c) It would have to be extracted.
(d) Humans didn't eat grass.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where might this form of civilization began?

2. What was important in the evolution of modern humans?

3. What was the wave made of that the author rode?

4. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?

5. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?

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