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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What professional group does Timothy Leary say has experienced mystical spiritual experiences?
(a) Astronauts.
(b) Government officials.
(c) Policemen.
(d) Nurses.

2. What does Timothy Leary name his studies?
(a) Agnosticism.
(b) Exo-psychology.
(c) Shamanism for the 20th Century.
(d) Interstellar communication.

3. What is QUIP?
(a) The Quietly Investigating Paradigm.
(b) The Quick Irradiating Principle.
(c) The Querulous Invisibility Principle.
(d) The Quantum Inseparability Principle.

4. Why does the author ban the word "I" from his conversation for one week?
(a) To increase his interest in his fellow man.
(b) To participate more fullly in the general consciousness.
(c) To overcome subjectivity and self-centeredness.
(d) To demonstrate humility.

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

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

7. What did Joseph Simonton claim to receive from an extraterrestrial?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Enlightenment.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) A trip through the atmosphere.

8. What Greek goddess do the Discordians worship?
(a) Eris.
(b) Athena.
(c) Persephone.
(d) Demeter.

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

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

11. What is Chapel Perilous?
(a) A mental crossroads calling your beliefs into question.
(b) A name for a bad drug experience.
(c) The location of the Discordian religion.
(d) A book written by Aleister Crowley.

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

13. What does Timothy Leary believe those who alter their consciousness should do?
(a) Drop out of human interaction.
(b) Seek the purpose.
(c) Relax and enjoy it.
(d) Sleep more.

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

15. 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) Sirius.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Uranus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who communicated with Aleister Crowley's wife Rose via extrasensory perception?

2. Whose work does Timothy Leary tell the author he was hoping to complete?

3. What message did the entity convey to the author?

4. What does the author claim that marijuana enabled him to do?

5. How many neurological circuits does Timothy Leary believe human beings have?

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