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

2. What is the angel with the flashing sword representing?
(a) The competitive nature of the world.
(b) All of these.
(c) The vengeful and ego driven god.
(d) The harshness of the desert environment.

3. Why might Zoroaster have banned Soma?
(a) He objected to altered states of mind.
(b) He thought of all altered states of mind as witchcraft.
(c) He objected to the bull sacrifice that was a part of the ritual.
(d) He was greatly influenced by the Christian religion that was forming.

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

5. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?
(a) In the women gatherers.
(b) All of these.
(c) In the male hunters.
(d) In the children gatherers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What isn't ecstasy?

2. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?

3. Where might this form of civilization began?

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

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

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