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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anticipating the Archaic Parade.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the purpose of having all these children?
(a) All of these.
(b) To provide workers for the labor intensive cultivation of sugar.
(c) To provide workers to bolster the economy.
(d) To provide workers to create alcohol.

2. What main point(s) are offered against the fly agaric mushroom?
(a) The experience is unpleasant in nature.
(b) All of these.
(c) The incorporation of cattle in the ritual makes no sense.
(d) It doesn't provide reliable ecstatic experiences.

3. What happens to an individual in a state of ecstasy, according to Gordon Wasson?
(a) The soul is scooped from the body.
(b) All of these.
(c) The soul is denigrated.
(d) The individual is intoxicated.

4. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?
(a) Broca's area and the cerebral cortex.
(b) The hypothalamus and the neocortex.
(c) The cerebral cortex and the neocortex.
(d) Broca's area and the neocortex.

5. When was tobacco smoking introduced to Europe?
(a) In the mid fifteenth century.
(b) In the fifteenth century.
(c) In the sixteenth century.
(d) In the mid sixteenth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was prominent on all images depicting the father of the Goddess?

2. Where is it likely the linguistic evolution began?

3. What had caused the abandonment of Catal Huyuk?

4. What monstrous force(s) were born into modern times at the expense of a relationship with the natural world?

5. What was denounced as witchcraft that is now common practice?

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