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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would mushrooms have been especially noticeable on the African grasslands?
(a) Their colors would have been intriguing.
(b) None of these.
(c) All of these.
(d) Their inviting smell.

2. What did the author learn about in India regarding religion?
(a) It is created by charlatans as a form of subservience.
(b) It is a clever sales technique.
(c) It is no more than a hustle.
(d) It is a world of lies shrouded in fantasy.

3. What was the name of the old woman who had provided the author with ayahuasca?
(a) Dona Carolina.
(b) Dona Caralina.
(c) Dona Catalina.
(d) Dona Ceraline.

4. The author originally believed that magic was a phenomenon of the...?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Naive,
(c) Primitive.
(d) Neither of these.

5. 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 finds answers to the life altering questions we all seek.
(c) He becomes privileged to a higher dimensional perspective.
(d) He finds harmony with the environment.

6. In what pharmacological areas has LSD aided humanity?
(a) Treatment of chronic alcoholism.
(b) Psychotherapy.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Both of these.

7. What is the soul of poetic verse?
(a) Intoxication.
(b) All of these.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Human emotion.

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

9. What do the dancing shamans have in their hands and sticking out of their bodies?
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) Light.
(c) None of these.
(d) People.

10. What tree did the woman eat from?
(a) Either of these.
(b) The Tree of Life.
(c) The Tree of Knowledge.
(d) Both of these.

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

12. What is a common occurrence regarding psilocybin intoxication?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Speaking in tongues.
(c) Spontaneous outbursts of poetry.
(d) Both of these.

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

14. What is the connection between the loss of connection to nature and humanity?
(a) Domestication.
(b) Animal breeding.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Livestock.

15. Of the animals present at the dig site mentioned, where were they from?
(a) Europe.
(b) India.
(c) Africa.
(d) Asia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What artistic style does a painting from Inaouanrhat in the Tassili resemble?

2. What cognitive ability are humans not known for?

3. What is produced by language?

4. Where do the most powerful mutagens occur naturally?

5. What unpleasant plants are also used by shamans?

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