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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What book did the brothers Terrence and Dennis McKenna write that Wilson refers to?
(a) The Invisible Landscape.
(b) I Ching.
(c) The Conscious Circle.
(d) Future Shock.

3. What did Wilson's children believe as adolescents that he thought was "bosh"?
(a) Astrology.
(b) Gastroenterology.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Sufism.

4. What is the name of the study of the process of aging?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Gerontology.
(c) Cryogenics.
(d) Ancientism.

5. What is the 6th circuit called?
(a) The neuroelectric circuit.
(b) The socio-sexual circuit.
(c) The mammalian circuit.
(d) The neurosomatic circuit.

6. What is a cyborg?
(a) A zombie.
(b) A combination of human and machine.
(c) A vampire.
(d) An extraterrestrial.

7. What are the three phases Timothy Leary postulates for each of the eight circuits?
(a) Mammalian, predatory, and pack-bonded.
(b) Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age.
(c) Input, decision making, and output.
(d) Passive, Hedonic, and Synergistic.

8. According to Timothy Leary, what kind of parents did Lao-Tse say were most likely to experience the Great Tao?
(a) Those who are willing to learn from their children.
(b) Those who are willing to teach their children.
(c) Those who are willing to learn from prophecies.
(d) Those who are willing to create good karma.

9. What happens when the 5th circuit is activated?
(a) Linear space and time are comprehended.
(b) Linear space and time are perceived as beautiful.
(c) Linear space and time are shut down.
(d) Linear space and time are transcended.

10. What does Kerry Thornley come to believe about the Discordians?
(a) They are extraterrestrials.
(b) They have been infiltrated by the CIA.
(c) They are supernatural beings.
(d) They assassinated President Kennedy.

11. What is the basic choice when operating on the 1st circuit?
(a) In or out.
(b) Right or left.
(c) Forward or back.
(d) Up or down.

12. Why does Wilson say the shaman suffers more than the ordinary victim of paranoia?
(a) The shaman is assailed by more forms of evil.
(b) The shaman has lost every natural defense.
(c) The shaman has no friends.
(d) The shaman is determined to confront every terror.

13. What is the scientific term for stopping life processes and then restarting them?
(a) Recess.
(b) Cryogenics.
(c) The hiatus.
(d) Suspended animation.

14. How is Isis typically portrayed.
(a) Floating above the earth.
(b) With one foot in water and one on land.
(c) Riding in a silver bubble.
(d) Emerging from the water.

15. How is Dr. Paul Segall able to extend the lifespan of laboratory rats?
(a) With cryogenics.
(b) With deprivation of tryptophan.
(c) With doses of hallucinogens.
(d) With controlled calorie intake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is synchronicity as formulated by Jung and Pauli?

2. Why does Wilson think it ironic that the play Illuminatus was presented under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth?

3. What does the 4th circuit introduce that the other circuits lack?

4. What does Dell publishing demand of Wilson?

5. Who does Robert Temple believe was the last to receive the knowledge from Sirius?

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