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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does science fail to do?
(a) Nurture the soul.
(b) Lift the human spirit.
(c) Educate the mind.
(d) All of these.
2. What did the built in recliners suggest?
(a) That midwifery had been part of the rites.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) That curing had been a part of the rites.
3. What is not a shamanic method of ecstasy?
(a) Having intercourse.
(b) Drumming.
(c) Fasting.
(d) Manipulation of breath.
4. What does psilocybin have a catalytic effect on?
(a) The linguistic impulse.
(b) The optical impulses.
(c) All of these.
(d) The auditory impulse.
5. What goddess did the Paleolithic cult worship?
(a) The Great Mother Goddess.
(b) The Great Wise Goddess.
(c) The Great Horned Goddess.
(d) The Great Winged Goddess.
6. What did the author find appalling?
(a) That the shamanic world was more real than our own.
(b) That religion was a construct to eliminate the truth of shamanism.
(c) That the shamanic world offered truth and the real world offered lies.
(d) The shamanic world could be accessed by anyone, but no one had believed in it.
7. What is the supreme goal of the shaman?
(a) To heal the individual.
(b) To guide the people spiritually.
(c) To abandon his body.
(d) To convey religious intent to a population.
8. "Shamanic ecstasy is is an act of _______..."?
(a) Unveiling the world around us.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Fortification.
9. What is the notion of illegal plants?
(a) Obnoxious but objective.
(b) Obnoxious but sensible.
(c) Obnoxious and ridiculous.
(d) Sane and objective.
10. Where does Terence McKenna believe Eden was?
(a) All of these.
(b) The Tasilli n Ajjer.
(c) The Tassili n Ajjer.
(d) The Tasili n Agger.
11. What does a shaman get from entering the domain of plant intelligence?
(a) He becomes enraptured by this perspective and isn't able to leave.
(b) He becomes privileged to a higher dimensional perspective.
(c) He finds answers to the life altering questions we all seek.
(d) He finds harmony with the environment.
12. How do Westerners regard psychoactive drugs?
(a) They are dangerous.
(b) They are frivolous.
(c) In neither of these ways.
(d) In both these ways.
13. The author originally believed that magic was a phenomenon of the...?
(a) Primitive.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Naive,
(d) Both of these.
14. What plant is considered not only a hallucinogen, but also an aphrodisiac?
(a) Bwiti.
(b) Stropharia cubensis.
(c) Peganum harmala.
(d) Iboga.
15. What two groups of scientists have analyzed shamanism?
(a) Neurologists and Anthropologists.
(b) Psychologists and Neurologists.
(c) Anthropologists and Psychologists.
(d) Neurologists and Sociologists.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a common metaphor for Soma?
2. Why is a grass containing DMT an unlikely source of material to boost the human consciousness?
3. What does Eastern philosophy call the dissolution of the ego?
4. Where do the most powerful mutagens occur naturally?
5. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?
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