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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. Crowley asserts in Chapter 60 that the best men in England are what?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Virgins.
(d) Whores.

2. What does the Lily represent which takes in the dying man?
(a) Yunor.
(b) Imor.
(c) Kether.
(d) Ether.

3. What is formed by a red triangle and a blue triangle?
(a) The Holy Hexagram.
(b) The Holy Pentagram.
(c) The Holy Trinity.
(d) The Holy Star.

4. Chapter 71 is an anthem repeating that there is no better way to purify the mind and body than what?
(a) Rhanmanta.
(b) Vishnu.
(c) Amana.
(d) Pranayama.

5. In his commentary, Crowley describes woman as being one of the what?
(a) Lower animals.
(b) Masters of the Temple.
(c) Desires.
(d) Gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Word of Double Power?

2. What does Crowley compare thought to in Chapter 57?

3. What does Crowley write is just a game in Chapter 72?

4. In the blood sacrifice ritual of the Angel and the Abyss, the magician makes a number of invocations and cuts a symbol into what?

5. The magician in Chapter 44 says, "There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: _________."

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Crowley describe certainty and doubt in "Terrier Work"?

2. What does Crowley indicate about light in the ritual of "Twig?"

3. What does Crowley write of logic in "Hashed Pheasant"?

4. Describe Crowley's Buddhist influences in "Buttons and Rosettes." How does his philosophy differ from Buddhist principles here?

5. How does Crowley view Laylah in relation to God in "The Praying Mantis"?

6. Describe Crowley's views of women, as noted in "The Dowser."

7. What does Crowley write of the Chinese octave in Chapter 44? What is his meaning?

8. Discuss the ritual of the "Mass of the Phoenix."

9. What is the Wheel of Samsara? What other wheels does Crowley describe in "Wheel and -- Whoa!"?

10. What metaphor does Crowley use for the mind in "Dust-Devils"? How may this be interpreted?

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