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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pp. 183-196.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Timothy Leary say the prison administration is like a Van Allen belt?
(a) They protect him from paparazzi.
(b) They protect his personal safety.
(c) They protect his working time.
(d) They protect his privacy.

2. According to Aleister Crowley, what is the purpose of "physiological experiments" in Western occultism?
(a) To awaken the third eye.
(b) To empty the mind.
(c) To jolt the nervous system into new neurological circuits.
(d) To calm the nervous system.

3. How many neurological circuits does Timothy Leary believe human beings have?
(a) Four.
(b) Twenty-three.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

4. What dictum of Yeats did the author come to understand?
(a) "Man has created himself."
(b) "Man has created woman."
(c) "Man has created death."
(d) "Man has created God."

5. Why was Timothy Leary fired from teaching at Harvard?
(a) Dispensing illegal substances to students.
(b) Plagiarism.
(c) Advocating the violent overthrow of the government.
(d) Original research on drugs and poor first amendment usage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Bozo?

2. What does ERP demonstrate?

3. What did Nikola Tesla and Gopi Krishna have in common?

4. Who wrote The Day the Dollar Dies?

5. According to Timothy Leary, what kind of parents did Lao-Tse say were most likely to experience the Great Tao?

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