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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 does a shaman get from entering the domain of plant intelligence?
(a) He becomes privileged to a higher dimensional perspective.
(b) He finds answers to the life altering questions we all seek.
(c) He finds harmony with the environment.
(d) He becomes enraptured by this perspective and isn't able to leave.

2. What is the notion of illegal plants?
(a) Sane and objective.
(b) Obnoxious but objective.
(c) Obnoxious and ridiculous.
(d) Obnoxious but sensible.

3. What is interesting to note about the Western monotheistic deity?
(a) All of these.
(b) Women aren't involved as they are in every other religion.
(c) Women are transformed into a negative aspect.
(d) Women are praised but captive.

4. What did the author find appalling?
(a) The shamanic world could be accessed by anyone, but no one had believed in it.
(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) That the shamanic world was more real than our own.

5. What was the wave made of that the author rode?
(a) Information.
(b) Water.
(c) Sand.
(d) Air.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the most recently evolved areas of the human brain?

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

3. Of the animals present at the dig site mentioned, where were they from?

4. What culture arrived in Palestine and offered an explosion in societal activities like art?

5. What intoxicant was imbibed by the tribes of Siberia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What psychological shift left European civilization at a disadvantage?

3. What two group activities acted to draw the hunter gatherer and tribal people closer together that modern civilization disdains?

4. What would a culture that shifted back to being plant based be beneficial to today's culture?

5. How does Western society regard healers? How is this a problem?

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

7. How can the Stropharia cubensis mushroom be seen as both male and female?

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

9. What factor influenced the fall of the female deity as well as the separation of humans from the environment?

10. What happened to the potential of ibogaine?

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