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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pp. 27-52.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Timothy Leary fired from teaching at Harvard?
(a) Dispensing illegal substances to students.
(b) Original research on drugs and poor first amendment usage.
(c) Advocating the violent overthrow of the government.
(d) Plagiarism.

2. Who founded the religion of Discordianism?
(a) Kerry Thornley.
(b) Alan Watts.
(c) Aldous Huxley.
(d) Robert Anton Wilson.

3. What did African tribesmen know about Sirius before scientists had telescopes?
(a) That Sirius is a double star.
(b) That Sirius is also called the Dog Star.
(c) That Sirius is the brightest of visible stars.
(d) That one can wish upon Sirius.

4. What does the name "AFFA," given by purported extraterrestrials, mean in "Angelic," a Cabalistic language?
(a) Starsigns.
(b) Joy.
(c) The future.
(d) Nothing.

5. Who did the Bavarian Illuminati intend to overthrow?
(a) The kings of Europe and the Pope.
(b) The American president and the Pope.
(c) The kings of Europe and the American president.
(d) The Pope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coined the term "metaprogramming substances" for mind-altering drugs?

2. What Nobel laureate developed the idea of multiple models in sub-atomic physics?

3. What did Joseph Simonton claim to receive from an extraterrestrial?

4. In the Babylonian myth, how did Ishtar have to enter Eternity?

5. What number does Wilson believe has "enigmatic" significance?

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