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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dell publishing demand of Wilson?
(a) That he cut 500 pages from the Illuminatus.
(b) That he add 500 pages to the Illuminatus.
(c) That he drop references to conspiracies from the Illuminatus.
(d) That he develop a sequel to the Illuminatus.

2. What happens when the 5th circuit is activated?
(a) Linear space and time are comprehended.
(b) Linear space and time are transcended.
(c) Linear space and time are shut down.
(d) Linear space and time are perceived as beautiful.

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

4. What does Charles Berlitz claim to have found in the Bermuda Triangle?
(a) A sunken Spanish galleon.
(b) A sunken pyramid.
(c) A sunken treasure.
(d) A sunken space vehicle.

5. What has Wilson been able to do since he began his occult explorations?
(a) Stop the wheel of karma.
(b) Move objects without touching them.
(c) Protect his children with a cone of power.
(d) Announce who's calling before answering the phone.

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

7. Why does Wilson suffer from a bad leg?
(a) He has a psychosomatic paralysis.
(b) He has sciatica.
(c) He had polio as a child.
(d) He lacks what Sufis call the will to walk.

8. 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.

9. What does Wilson claim is an easy step?
(a) From acceptance to joy.
(b) From fear to terror.
(c) From pity to self-pity.
(d) From pain to agony.

10. What did Wilson's children believe as adolescents that he thought was "bosh"?
(a) Gastroenterology.
(b) Sufism.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Astrology.

11. What does Jacques Vallee believe visitors from space actually are?
(a) Beings from another dimension.
(b) Angels
(c) Projections of our own neural systems.
(d) Extraterrestrial beings

12. What maxim of Einstein's shows his dislike of quantum mechanics?
(a) "E=MC2."
(b) "God does not play dice."
(c) "World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
(d) "Truth is what stands the test of experience."

13. Why does Wilson feel like a failure as his 42nd birthday approaches?
(a) His children disagree with him.
(b) He can't achieve enlightenment.
(c) His book Illuminatus is still unpublished.
(d) His wife has left him.

14. Who does Saul-Paul Sirag believe is the Higher Intelligence behind these mysterious communications?
(a) Our neighbors from Sirius.
(b) Our ancestors in the future.
(c) Ourselves in the future.
(d) Our descendants in the past.

15. What did Buddha teach about karma?
(a) Evil will be punished.
(b) Good will be rewarded.
(c) The effects of past actions are still active.
(d) It is impossible to avoid bad energy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a cyborg?

2. What is an intersteller hybrid?

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

4. How long does Isaac Asimov claim is the cycle between the discovery of a scientific principle and its application in changing the world?

5. What does Dr. Jack Sarfatti call limiting our view to the local universe?

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