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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pp. 53-75.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Jacques Vallee believe about extraterrestrial communication?
(a) It is scientific because it can be duplicated in a laboratory.
(b) It is a 20th century phenomenon.
(c) It is extraterrestrial, not neurological.
(d) It is neurological, not extraterrestrial.

2. What does psychiatrist R.D. Laing believe is the principle cause of psychotic breakdowns?
(a) Misinformation.
(b) Disinformation.
(c) Lack of information.
(d) Information overload.

3. From what does yoga free the mind?
(a) Sluggishness.
(b) Misunderstanding.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Conditioned perception.

4. What does the author learn from giving divinations with Tarot cards?
(a) It is difficult to deceive those who are pure in heart.
(b) It is easy to deceive those who are most skeptical.
(c) It is impossible to deceive the honest in heart.
(d) It is easy to deceive those who want to believe.

5. What does the author regard as Aleister Crowley's major achievement?
(a) The synthesis of occult traditions with scientific methods.
(b) His Nietzchean Supermanism.
(c) His anarcho-fascist Darwinism.
(d) His notorious anti-Christian philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Idries Shah believe the Illuminati to be?

3. Who founded the religion of Discordianism?

4. Why does the author ban the word "I" from his conversation for one week?

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

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