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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pp. 76-101.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what was Timothy Leary arrested and imprisoned, according to the author?
(a) Advocating marijuana use to college students.
(b) Owning two joints of marijuana.
(c) Publishing directions for growing marijuana.
(d) Selling two joints of marijuana.

2. What dictum of Yeats did the author come to understand?
(a) "Man has created death."
(b) "Man has created woman."
(c) "Man has created God."
(d) "Man has created himself."

3. In the Babylonian myth, how did Ishtar have to enter Eternity?
(a) Carefully.
(b) Through fiery gates.
(c) In royal purple.
(d) Naked.

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

5. What phenomenon does Wilson claim has been verified by thousands of researchers over a period of decades?
(a) UFO visitations.
(b) The existence of Bigfoot.
(c) Telepathy.
(d) Telekinesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Discordian mystic sign?

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

3. According to Aleister Crowley, what is the purpose of "physiological experiments" in Western occultism?

4. According to the author, his data is in direct conflict with what?

5. What is the motto of the Firesign Theatre?

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