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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is shamanism?
(a) Divination.
(b) All of these.
(c) Healing.
(d) Theatrical performance.

2. What religion in Africa is hallucinogenic plant based?
(a) Iboga.
(b) Bwati.
(c) Bwratini.
(d) Bwiti.

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

4. After what point may a shaman have access to a superhuman plane?
(a) After he has the experience of resurrection while in ecstasy.
(b) After he has trained for fifteen years under the tutelage of a shaman.
(c) After he has gained the wisdom from the other plane.
(d) After he has graduated the "shamanism 101" course.

5. What questions do humans find most interesting?
(a) Where did we come from?
(b) All of these.
(c) Who are we?
(d) Towards what fate do we move?

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the plant that may have contributed to the emergence of consciousness be in Africa?

2. What is the notion of illegal plants?

3. When did the preparation of visionary Soma cease?

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

5. What unpleasant plants are also used by shamans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are considered tools for the exploration of the human psyche? How are psychedelic shamans being considered as of recently again?

2. What did the Natufian culture bring to Palestine?

3. The knowledge of what mystery was lost and what was the affect on humanity of this loss?

4. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

5. What does John Pfeiffer observe about Upper Paleolithic art?

6. What was Eliade's motive for exposing shamanism?

7. Why are the numbered paragraphs so important to humanity?

8. What is Tasili n Ajjer famous for?

9. In what two ways can the Transcendent Other be described?

10. What was noted physiologically with the evolution of language?

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