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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Wilson's daughter Luna die?
(a) She died of pneumonia.
(b) She was killed in an auto accident.
(c) She died during a bad drug trip.
(d) She was murdered during a burglary.

2. What group has been studied by Robert Temple about their knowledge of Sirius?
(a) The Berkeleyans.
(b) The Dogon tribe.
(c) The Babylonians.
(d) The Egyptians.

3. What does Wilson claim is an easy step?
(a) From pity to self-pity.
(b) From fear to terror.
(c) From pain to agony.
(d) From acceptance to joy.

4. What effect did Sufi heart-chakra exercises have on Wilson?
(a) He got dizzy.
(b) He willed his book into publication.
(c) He felt at one with the universe.
(d) He experienced typical anxiety syndrome.

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

6. How does Kerry Thornley decide to identify himself after his ID has been stolen?
(a) By his mother's maiden name.
(b) By reading his iris.
(c) By his thumbprint.
(d) By renaming himself.

7. Who wrote the play, There Is No More Firmament?
(a) Heathcote Williams.
(b) Francis King.
(c) Frater Paragranis.
(d) Antonin Artaud.

8. What does Wilson claim everyone who gets involved with parapsychology will experience?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Cosmic harmony.
(c) Precognition.
(d) Levitation.

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

10. What was Osiris the god of?
(a) Fire.
(b) Warfare and chaos.
(c) Resurrection and eternal life.
(d) Order and harmony.

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

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

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

14. Why does Wilson suffer from a bad leg?
(a) He lacks what Sufis call the will to walk.
(b) He had polio as a child.
(c) He has sciatica.
(d) He has a psychosomatic paralysis.

15. What is the common name for the first neural circuit?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Ego.
(c) Id.
(d) Conscience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Day the Dollar Dies?

2. What did Wilson's children believe as adolescents that he thought was "bosh"?

3. What is the most extreme understanding among those who activate the 8th circuit?

4. How did Timothy Leary help the Wilson family cope with Luna's death?

5. Who is the Intelligence identified with Sirius in Crowley's symbology?

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