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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author come to believe is present in all things, living and non-living?
(a) A planet-wide consciousness.
(b) Superhuman intelligence.
(c) The elements of matter.
(d) The elements of the star Sirius.

3. Who imprisoned Timothy Leary after he escaped from an American prison?
(a) A Cuban prison in Havana.
(b) The Black Panthers in Algiers.
(c) A Russian prison in Moscow.
(d) An international prison in Switzerland.

4. Whose work does Timothy Leary tell the author he was hoping to complete?
(a) Horus.
(b) Merlin.
(c) David Hilliard.
(d) Aleister Crowley.

5. What do Discordians espouse in place of dogmas?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Michaelmas.
(c) Mousemas.
(d) Catmas.

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

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

8. When does Robert K.G. Temple believe Earth was first visited by an advanced race?
(a) A.D. 4500.
(b) 4500 B.C.
(c) A.D. 1976.
(d) A.D. 2012.

9. What is the Law of Fives?
(a) The number five represents perfection.
(b) The number five has cabalistic powers.
(c) All events are direction connected to the number five.
(d) The number five underlies all human connections.

10. What Nobel laureate developed the idea of multiple models in sub-atomic physics?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Marshall McLuhan.
(c) Carl Sagan.
(d) Niels Bohr.

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

12. What unusual affiliations does the author learn Father Hidalgo held in San Miguel de Allende?
(a) Father Hidalgo was both a Jesuit and a Mason.
(b) Father Hidalgo was both Mexican and American.
(c) Father Hidalgo was both a Discordian and a Jesuit.
(d) Father Hidalgo was both a Jesuit and an extraterrestrial.

13. What personage appears to most children contacted by extraterrestrials?
(a) A large blue man.
(b) A little green man.
(c) A lady in a silver bubble.
(d) A lady in a blue light.

14. Who started the Bavarian Illuminati?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Timothy Leary.
(c) Philip Campbell Argyle-Smith.
(d) Dr. Adam Weishaupt.

15. What does Brad Steiger say one must have before beginning a study of the occult?
(a) A genuine desire to be informed.
(b) An open mind.
(c) Competence in dealing with the ordinary.
(d) A healthy skepticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does yoga free the mind?

2. What is the slogan of the cryologists?

3. What does the author learn from giving divinations with Tarot cards?

4. For what was Timothy Leary arrested and imprisoned, according to the author?

5. Why does Timothy Leary say the prison administration is like a Van Allen belt?

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