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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Masculine referred to in Chapter 3?
(a) The Great.
(b) The Many.
(c) The Father.
(d) The Powerful.

2. In Chapter 23, by which means does Crowley tell his followers to leave easy lives, the world at large, and even each other?
(a) Rise above God.
(b) Turn to God.
(c) Follow The Way.
(d) Turn from God.

3. Crowley indicates that Chapter 38 is only comprehensible to whom?
(a) The Golden Dawn.
(b) E.A. Freemasons.
(c) God.
(d) Laylah.

4. What does Crowley write conquers desire and surrenders his individualism to act as "an hollow tube to bring down Fire from Heaven"?
(a) The Heart.
(b) The Will.
(c) The Soul.
(d) The Ego.

5. In Chapter 11, what shoots down through The Abyss, uniting what is above with what is below?
(a) Fear.
(b) Light.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Crowley writes that it is not necessary to understand God but to simply ____ him.

2. Chapter 16 advises the reader to embrace the change brought on by what?

3. Who will be the father of the one child the feminine of Chapter 4 gives birth to?

4. What is the name of the first triad in Chapter 0?

5. In the nineteenth chapter, Crowley presents the reader with the parable of The Leopard and the what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the figure of Laylah represent to Crowley? What is written of her in "The Pole Star"?

2. How is Crowley's depiction of God different in "The Smoking Dog" than in previous chapters?

3. Describe the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

4. How does Crowley describe the creation of the universe in Chapter 6, "Caviar"?

5. Discuss the Buddhist principles that Crowley introduces in "Pilgrim Talk."

6. What are the four triads Crowley uses to set forth his theory of the universe's creation?

7. What does Crowley write of the Venus de Milo in his commentary of the text? What does this imply?

8. What does Crowley write of the Knights Templar?

9. How does Chapter 27 relate to Chapter 15? What story does Crowley tell in "The Sorcerer"?

10. Where does Crowley associate disease in "Steeped Horsehair"? Where is man's potential?

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