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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Wilson claim to be able to predict people's responses to conspiracy theories?
(a) They will change their minds when they hear new evidence.
(b) They are completely unpredictable.
(c) They will believe whatever they believed beforehand.
(d) They will not be interested one way or the other.

2. In Wilson's division of human life into eight stages, what happens at the eighth level?
(a) Cosmic union.
(b) Urbanized civilization.
(c) Extraterrestrial migration.
(d) Immortality.

3. What is an intersteller hybrid?
(a) A mixture of ethnicities.
(b) A human with Rh negative blood factor.
(c) A descendant of normal humanity and a space god.
(d) A strengthened human being.

4. What did Nikola Tesla and Gopi Krishna have in common?
(a) Mystical visions after mysterious illnesses.
(b) An ability to write poetry.
(c) Early death.
(d) An interest in Buddhism.

5. What is the level of the third neural circuit?
(a) Paleolithic.
(b) Mammalian.
(c) Amphibian.
(d) Angelic.

6. What was Nikola Tesla's major goal in life?
(a) To make energy cheap for all the world.
(b) To prove Edison's theories about direct current.
(c) To win the Nobel Prize.
(d) To make contact with those who had died.

7. What did Buddha teach about karma?
(a) Evil will be punished.
(b) The effects of past actions are still active.
(c) It is impossible to avoid bad energy.
(d) Good will be rewarded.

8. How does Wilson define objectivity?
(a) The doctrine that the universe exists only within us.
(b) The doctrine that the universe is a joint creation of God and the investigator.
(c) The doctrine that the universe exists apart from the ideas of the investigator.
(d) The doctrine that the universe is created by the investigator.

9. What does Wilson say is the unfortunate result of the suppression of scientific research into drugs?
(a) An outlaw drug culture.
(b) Undiscovered drugs.
(c) A boring society.
(d) A disrespect for law.

10. What is the 7th brain circuit called?
(a) The neurogenetic circuit.
(b) The neurosomatic circuit.
(c) The neuro-atomic circuit.
(d) The neuroelectric circuit.

11. What does Schrodinger's Cat Paradox illustrate?
(a) Why cats have nine lives.
(b) The uncertainty of observation.
(c) The limits of human knowledge.
(d) The reality of quantum mechanics.

12. What does Wilson say is the inevitable fate of all conspiracy buffs?
(a) They eventually lose interest.
(b) They are persecuted.
(c) They are vindicated.
(d) They are prosecuted.

13. How did Henry Adams believe technology would increase?
(a) Arithmetically.
(b) Occasionally.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Exponentially.

14. Who does Robert Temple believe was the last to receive the knowledge from Sirius?
(a) Timothy Leary.
(b) Proclus.
(c) Himself.
(d) Mohammed.

15. What organization does Wilson say one encounters frequently in studying the mysteries of Sirius?
(a) The Kiwanis Club.
(b) The Order of the Shrine.
(c) The Lions Club.
(d) Freemasonry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dell publishing demand of Wilson?

2. Why does Wilson suffer from a bad leg?

3. What is Crowleymas?

4. What is the 6th circuit called?

5. What maxim of Einstein's shows his dislike of quantum mechanics?

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