Artificial Paradises

Question: When was the LaGuardia Report on marijuana published, and what was its main conclusion?

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		A) Published in 1939 — It concluded that marijuana causes fatigue and headaches
		B) Published in 1938 — It concluded that intoxicants create gods and symbols
		C) Published in 1941 — It concluded that marijuana creates moral decline
		D) Published in 1944 — It concluded that marijuana was not as dangerous as commonly believed and was not addictive, and it might have positive effects

Explanation: In the lectures, the LaGuardia Report is presented as a major challenge to Anslinger-era alarmism: it argued that marijuana’s harms were exaggerated, that it was not inherently addictive, and it did not produce the extreme effects claimed in the 1930s panic. (Lecture/Reading: Boon, The Road of Excess, Chapter 3.)

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Question: What was the ideal in Europe in the 19th century for a “normal” person?

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שאלה #193539

		A) A person from the lower class who provides entertainment
		B) An upper-class person — the aristocrat, from the mirror-rooms of the palace
		C) A European bourgeois person — the bourgeois archetype
		D) A European aristocratic person from the lower class

Explanation: In the lectures, “normality” in 19th-century Europe is tied to the bourgeois ideal—self-disciplined, productive, respectable, and morally regulated—used as a standard against which “deviance” (including drug use) was judged. (Lecture/Reading: Ram, Hashishophobia; also fits the broader discipline/productivity framing in Breen, The Age of Intoxication.)

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Question: When did coffee begin to be adopted as a bourgeois institution in Europe?

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שאלה #193540

		A) From the 17th century
		B) From the 16th century
		C) At the end of the 18th century
		D) At the beginning of the 19th century

Explanation: The lectures describe the 17th century as the period when European coffeehouses spread and became institutionalized as key bourgeois spaces of sociability, discussion, and commerce (especially in major cities). (Lecture/Reading: Breen, The Age of Intoxication; also consistent with coffeehouse sociability framing in Grehan.)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~ It “starts” in the seventeenth century mainly because coffee became available in Europe through expanding Ottoman–European trade and travel, and then the coffeehouse emerged as a new kind of urban public venue where people could gather, communicate, and talk politics—enough that authorities tried to monitor and regulate them (e.g., licensing and suppression). Ram_Middle East Drug Cultures i… Ram_Middle East Drug Cultures i… Ram_Middle East Drug Cultures i…

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Question: What was the British colonial attitude in India toward the “fakir,” and what was it based on?

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שאלה #193541

		A) A positive attitude, stemming from his inventions and the entertainment he provided
		B) A negative attitude because it involved many forms of violence
		C) A positive attitude because of its broad social acceptance
		D) A negative attitude because it opposed capitalist labor discipline; the idea was that drug use made the “fakir” lazy and unproductive

Explanation: In the lectures, British colonial discourse treats the fakir as part of a “backward” social type, and links his practices (including intoxication/ascetic life) to idleness and resistance to productive labor, so condemnation is grounded in colonial-capitalist ideals of work and discipline. (Lecture/Reading: Chattopadhyaya, “Primer for Rebellion”.)

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Question: How did the image of the Prophet Muhammad in India change, by the end of the 19th century?

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שאלה #193542

		A) From someone who enjoyed smoking hashish for pleasure, to someone who never consumed mind-altering substances
		B) From someone who was proud of being poor (“poverty is my honor and my pride”), to someone whose image was that of a merchant and an integral part of the middle class
		C) From someone who liked drinking wine, to someone who opposed drinking alcohol
		D) From someone from the upper class, to someone from the lower class

Explanation: In the lectures, the late-19th-century recasting of Muhammad in India is described as a shift toward a bourgeois respectability frame: from an ideal of honored poverty/ascetic virtue to an image of a merchant aligned with middle-class values. (Lecture/Reading: Chattopadhyaya, “Primer for Rebellion”.)

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Question: Who was the Egyptian representative at the Second Opium Conference in 1925, who tried to persuade the committee members to include marijuana in the list of prohibited drugs?

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שאלה #193543

		A) Al-‘Adud
		B) Al-Rumayn
		C) Al-Jindi
		D) Muhammad Ubayda

Explanation: The lectures describe El Guindy as the driving force behind Egypt’s demand to include cannabis in the 1924–1925 Opium Conference. (Reading: Ram, Squaring the Circle). Quote: “Dr. Muhammad El Guindy… [was] the driving force behind Egypt’s demand to include cannabis in the opium convention.”

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Question: When did hashish first arrive in the Middle East?

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שאלה #193544

		A) During the 10th century
		B) During the 6th century
		C) During the 5th century
		D) During the 9th century

Explanation: In the lectures, hashish is treated as a premodern intoxicant that enters the Middle East around the 9th century, alongside wider cultural and commercial circulation within the expanding Islamic world. This helps explain why later medieval sources already discuss hashish as a known practice long before modern colonial drug regimes. (Reading: Ram, Middle East Drug Cultures in the Long View). Quote: “Hashish… was initially introduced in the Middle East in the ninth century…”

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Question: What was the primary purpose of hashish consumption in the “Islamic world” in the 9th–10th centuries?

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שאלה #193545

		A) The main purpose was in combination with wine (as the Sufis believed).
		B) Medical needs.
		C) For pleasure.
		D) To train artists in the nearby field.

Explanation: In the 9th century, Arab scholars learned hashish’s medicinal properties from translated Greek texts, and it “was not yet known… as a recreational drug” and was used mainly for “therapeutic remedies” (analgesic, appetite inductor, etc.). (Lecture/Reading: Haggai Ram, Middle East Drug Cultures in the Long View) Quote: “it was not yet known… as a recreational drug; rather, it served as therapeutic remedies.”

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Question: What is the basis of the Prophet Muhammad’s objection to wine?

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שאלה #193546

		A) It was considered a luxury product that the first believers could not afford.
		B) Because it causes an alteration of consciousness (intoxication).
		C) Because it encourages fatigue.
		D) In his time it was considered an inferior product that provoked disgust, so the first believers did not use it.

לא יודע למה א' ,זה ההסבר היחידי הוא לא תומך ב-א' Explanation: In the lectures, wine is treated as an intoxicant associated with “wanton diversion and amusement” and as something religiously proscribed, which is why public drinking spaces (taverns) are framed as socially marginal in Islamic contexts. (Reading: Grehan, Smoking and sociability in the Ottoman Empire). Quote: “Any drinks consumed solely for wanton diversion and amusement were strictly forbidden.”

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Question: When was the distinction first established between drug use for pleasure and drug use for medical needs?

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שאלה #193547

		A) In the 6th century
		B) In the 18th century
		C) In the 20th century
		D) None of the answers is correct

Explanation: The lectures treat the pleasure vs. medical split as a modern (20th-century) classificatory move tied to drug-control regimes that try to separate “therapeutic/licit” from “recreational/illicit” use. (Reading: Breen, The Age of Intoxication). Quote: “modern societies from attempting to do just that.”

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Question: When was the LaGuardia Report on marijuana published, and what was its main conclusion?

Question: What was the ideal in Europe in the 19th century for a “normal” person?

Question: When did coffee begin to be adopted as a bourgeois institution in Europe?

Question: What was the British colonial attitude in India toward the “fakir,” and what was it based on?

Question: How did the image of the Prophet Muhammad in India change, by the end of the 19th century?

Question: Who was the Egyptian representative at the Second Opium Conference in 1925, who tried to persuade the committee members to include marijuana in the list of prohibited drugs?

Question: When did hashish first arrive in the Middle East?

Question: What was the primary purpose of hashish consumption in the “Islamic world” in the 9th–10th centuries?

Question: What is the basis of the Prophet Muhammad’s objection to wine?

Question: When was the distinction first established between drug use for pleasure and drug use for medical needs?

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