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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Searching for Soma: The Golden Vedic Enigma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What cognitive ability are humans not known for?
(a) Dance.
(b) Sport.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Philosophy.

2. Why must the plant sought require no preparation?
(a) Preparation required time that the hominids, as hunter gatherers, didn't have.
(b) Early hominids wouldn't have had time to distill something.
(c) Early hominids were simply eaters.
(d) Preparation belonged to a more evolved group of hominids.

3. What did the built in recliners suggest?
(a) That curing had been a part of the rites.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) That midwifery had been part of the rites.
(d) Both of these.

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

5. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?
(a) In neither of these ways.
(b) They are dangerous.
(c) In both these ways.
(d) They are frivolous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the dancing shamans have in their hands and sticking out of their bodies?

2. What plant is considered not only a hallucinogen, but also an aphrodisiac?

3. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?

4. What has been agreed on regarding Soma?

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

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