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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pp. 197-218.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What feature distinguishes the visitor from Sirius to the Dogon tribe?
(a) A fish tail.
(b) A third eye.
(c) Claws for hands.
(d) A hawk head.

2. What is the result of the existence of parallel worlds?
(a) Man gradually becomes aware of alternative possibilities.
(b) Man controls his own destiny.
(c) Everything that can happen does happen.
(d) There is an alternative universe.

3. Why does Wilson become involved with witches?
(a) Trying to learn black magic.
(b) Trying to change lead into gold.
(c) Trying to gain initiation into as many shamanic traditions as possible.
(d) Trying to make contact with evil spirits.

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

5. Who wrote The Day the Dollar Dies?
(a) Willard Cantelon.
(b) Timothy Leary.
(c) Kerry Thornley.
(d) Wilson himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is QUIP?

2. Which government agency does the author say was responsible for his opinion that governments are more bad than good?

3. What does the author believe Timothy Leary would regard as the greatest "epistemological sin"?

4. What does Wilson say is a neurotic-psionic law?

5. Why is a non-local universe meaningless?

(see the answer key)

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