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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what was Timothy Leary arrested and imprisoned, according to the author?
(a) Publishing directions for growing marijuana.
(b) Selling two joints of marijuana.
(c) Owning two joints of marijuana.
(d) Advocating marijuana use to college students.

2. What is the Discordian mystic sign?
(a) The extended middle finger.
(b) The two-finger V.
(c) Crossed fingers.
(d) Thumbs up.

3. What is the basic Discordian sociological law?
(a) What goes around comes around.
(b) The imposition of order equals the escalation of chaos.
(c) All things come to those who wait.
(d) Though much is taken, much abides.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Aleister Crowley, what is the purpose of "physiological experiments" in Western occultism?

2. What is the scientific term for abrupt contradictions of one's understanding of reality?

3. What Nobel laureate developed the idea of multiple models in sub-atomic physics?

4. Who did the Bavarian Illuminati intend to overthrow?

5. What did African tribesmen know about Sirius before scientists had telescopes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the dog days?

2. What effect did research into the Bavarian Illuminati have on Wilson's life?

3. What reason does Wilson postulate for the public ignoring scientists' reports of extraterrestrial communication?

4. What is Chapel Perilous?

5. What does Wilson consider to have been Aleister Crowley's major achievement?

6. What three factors does Timothy Leary claim are essential to experimentation with psychedelic drugs?

7. What are the two meta-models Wilson suggests to account for all of his data?

8. How was the experience of Joseph Simonton typical or atypical of UFO contactees?

9. What mistreatment of Dr. Wilhelm Reich left Wilson suspicious of the U.S. government?

10. What are the different forms taken by Mescalito in different myth systems?

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