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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kerry Thornley come to believe about the Discordians?
(a) They assassinated President Kennedy.
(b) They are extraterrestrials.
(c) They are supernatural beings.
(d) They have been infiltrated by the CIA.

2. Why is November 23 sacred to Discordians?
(a) It is the day the world will end.
(b) It is Harpo Marx's birthday.
(c) It is the day their religion was founded.
(d) It commemorates the first extraterrestrial contact.

3. What does Dr. Jack Sarfatti call limiting our view to the local universe?
(a) Electromagnetic chauvinism.
(b) Nativism.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) Oxygen-based chauvinism.

4. According to Duncan MacNaughton, what is the purpose of the long dark tunnels in the Great Pyramid?
(a) They are telescopes.
(b) They are crypts.
(c) They form a labyrinth.
(d) They are escape routes.

5. What group has been studied by Robert Temple about their knowledge of Sirius?
(a) The Dogon tribe.
(b) The Babylonians.
(c) The Berkeleyans.
(d) The Egyptians.

6. How did Timothy Leary help the Wilson family cope with Luna's death?
(a) He demonstrated unconditional love for them.
(b) He taught them that life is ongoing.
(c) He mustered community support for them.
(d) He convinced them it was possible to transcend suffering.

7. What is synchronicity as formulated by Jung and Pauli?
(a) Events are without pattern.
(b) Events form patterns that are not meaningful, but causal.
(c) Events form patterns imposed by our neural patterning.
(d) Coincidences form patterns that are not causal, but meaningful.

8. Who first postulated that all chemical elements fall into eight families?
(a) Timothy Leary.
(b) Pythagoras.
(c) Nikola Tesla.
(d) John Newland.

9. How far does Dr. Paul Segall think he will be able to extend human life?
(a) To an average of 1000 years.
(b) To an average of 400 or 500 years.
(c) To an average of 100 years.
(d) To an average of 200 years.

10. According to Timothy Leary, what kind of parents did Lao-Tse say were most likely to experience the Great Tao?
(a) Those who are willing to learn from prophecies.
(b) Those who are willing to teach their children.
(c) Those who are willing to create good karma.
(d) Those who are willing to learn from their children.

11. What is an intersteller hybrid?
(a) A strengthened human being.
(b) A mixture of ethnicities.
(c) A human with Rh negative blood factor.
(d) A descendant of normal humanity and a space god.

12. In Wilson's division of human life into eight stages, what happens at the eighth level?
(a) Extraterrestrial migration.
(b) Urbanized civilization.
(c) Cosmic union.
(d) Immortality.

13. What gave credence to conspiracy theories in 1974?
(a) The arrest of Joanna Leary.
(b) The Watergate breakin.
(c) The imprisonment of Timothy Leary.
(d) The visits from extraterrestrials.

14. What was Nikola Tesla's major goal in life?
(a) To prove Edison's theories about direct current.
(b) To win the Nobel Prize.
(c) To make energy cheap for all the world.
(d) To make contact with those who had died.

15. How did Wilson's daughter Luna die?
(a) She was killed in an auto accident.
(b) She was murdered during a burglary.
(c) She died of pneumonia.
(d) She died during a bad drug trip.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Timothy Leary characterize the first four chemical elements?

2. What does Schrodinger's Cat Paradox illustrate?

3. What does Jacques Vallee believe visitors from space actually are?

4. What is the name of the study of the process of aging?

5. What is the most extreme understanding among those who activate the 8th circuit?

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