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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who taught that normal consciousness is self-created delusion?
(a) Buddha.
(b) Mohammed.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Shiva.

2. What three factors does Timothy Leary believe are critical to correct use of mind-altering drugs?
(a) Ambiance, companions, and dosage.
(b) Time, place, and patient.
(c) Dosage, set, and setting.
(d) Personality, DNA, and setting.

3. What is Timothy Leary's principle of neurological relativism?
(a) Any person is either more or less intelligent than any other.
(b) On an given day, a person is either more or less intelligent than the day before.
(c) No two people have identical experiences.
(d) No experience can be exactly replicated.

4. What government building is sacred to Discordians?
(a) The Justice Department.
(b) The Capitol.
(c) The Pentagon.
(d) The Supreme Court.

5. What is the basic Discordian sociological law?
(a) All things come to those who wait.
(b) The imposition of order equals the escalation of chaos.
(c) Though much is taken, much abides.
(d) What goes around comes around.

6. What fact does Nuit say is actually a lie?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Life.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

7. What is the motto of the Firesign Theatre?
(a) None of us knows what's wrong.
(b) You know everything that's wrong.
(c) Everything they know is wrong.
(d) Everything you know is wrong.

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

9. What is the scientific term for abrupt contradictions of one's understanding of reality?
(a) Cognitive dissonance.
(b) Future shock.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Reality adjustment.

10. What does the author claim that marijuana enabled him to do?
(a) Self-hypnotize.
(b) Teleport himself to other places.
(c) Levitate.
(d) Sleep soundly.

11. What does the "Immortalist Underground" believe?
(a) Life can be extended by as much as 20-25 years.
(b) Humans are biodegradable.
(c) Death is unnecessary.
(d) Extending life is improper.

12. According to Aleister Crowley, what is the purpose of "physiological experiments" in Western occultism?
(a) To empty the mind.
(b) To calm the nervous system.
(c) To jolt the nervous system into new neurological circuits.
(d) To awaken the third eye.

13. What are "Dog Days"?
(a) Indian summer days.
(b) July 23 to September 8.
(c) September 8 to October 31.
(d) Days of excessive heat.

14. What phenomenon did Freud call "projection?"
(a) Sending our essence into the void.
(b) Attributing our characteristics to others.
(c) Seeing what we expect to see.
(d) Sending telepathic messages.

15. How many scientists does Saul Paul Sirag claim have received extraterrestrial communication?
(a) More than 1,000.
(b) More than 100.
(c) More than 10.
(d) More than 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Discordians espouse in place of dogmas?

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

3. What personage appears to most children contacted by extraterrestrials?

4. What planet did both a West Virginia salesman and a Washington, D.C. law student independently claim had sent them a visitor?

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

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