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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) Original research on drugs and poor first amendment usage.
(b) Dispensing illegal substances to students.
(c) Advocating the violent overthrow of the government.
(d) Plagiarism.

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

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 is a Satori?
(a) A moment of enlightenment.
(b) A Zen master.
(c) A Hindu ashram.
(d) An unusually large ocean wave.

5. What planet did both a West Virginia salesman and a Washington, D.C. law student independently claim had sent them a visitor?
(a) Lanalus.
(b) Uranus.
(c) Sirius.
(d) Jupiter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who founded the religion of Discordianism?

3. What phenomenon does Wilson claim has been verified by thousands of researchers over a period of decades?

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

5. What does Wilson contend the War on Drugs brought about?

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