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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 is the name of the vines used in making ayahuasca?
(a) Wisteria sinensis.
(b) Lonicera sempervirens.
(c) Campsis-radicans.
(d) The Banisteriopsis vines.

2. What archaeological site has yielded a wealth of religious art?
(a) Catal Huyuk.
(b) Catal Huyak.
(c) Catal Hiyak.
(d) Caral Huyuk.

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

4. Which mushroom will take the projection of male or female energy with equal ease?
(a) Amanita muscaria.
(b) Stropharia cubensis.
(c) Psilocybe cubensis.
(d) Psilocybe mexicana.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do psychoactive plants allow a shaman to do?

4. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?

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

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