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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How had the natural world come to be seen by the late Roman times?

2. What was the juice expelled from poppies used to treat in Saxon England?

3. How did Leary and Schultes compare?

4. What was the preferred method of Cannabis imbibing?

5. What myth or story is explained in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did LSD do to the population, and how did it bring about the sixties?

2. In what ways is alcohol a problem for society?

3. What are some main issues regarding sugar addiction? What about production?

4. Why aren't the positive effects of marijuana usage reported in America from scientists?

5. What were the first of the Europeans to outlaw tobacco? What affect did this have on consumption?

6. What do the governments gain in the visible suppression of morphine, heroin, and cocaine?

7. How could Glaukos represent the Stropharia cubensis mushroom?

8. What is the strongest argument for the legalization of any drug?

9. What is the difference between ayahuasca and DMT hallucinations?

10. What likely caused the fall of Catal Huyuk, and where did its inhabitants go?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss an Archaic Revival. Does McKenna suggest that human beings should return to the dark ages? Why or why not? Does what McKenna suggests make sense and in what ways?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss McKenna's idea to introduce a two hundred percent federal tax on alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. What might these funds be allocated for? How could the government benefit from such a legalization? How does cannabis legalization alone promise to net the government far more in taxes than alcohol and tobacco combined? What information supports that theory?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the shift from a goddess to god. What kinds of values were lost in the shift, according to McKenna? How might humanity benefit in reverting to that state of consciousness now? What kinds of behavioral patterns were changed when the deity changed?

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