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

2. 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 demonstrate humility.
(c) To overcome subjectivity and self-centeredness.
(d) To participate more fullly in the general consciousness.

3. What does the Book of the Law say is "the whole of the law"?
(a) "If it feels good, do it."
(b) "Obey the gods."
(c) "Keep the commandments."
(d) "Do what thou wilt."

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

5. Who started the Bavarian Illuminati?
(a) Timothy Leary.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Dr. Adam Weishaupt.
(d) Philip Campbell Argyle-Smith.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Timothy Leary say is the message?

3. Why was Timothy Leary fired from teaching at Harvard?

4. What does the "Immortalist Underground" believe?

5. What is the Discordian mystic sign?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law?

2. What is Chapel Perilous?

3. What caused Wilson to begin to suspect that Our Lady of Guadalupe, identified as the Virgin Mary, was the same person as Nuit, the Egyptian goddess of the stars?

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

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

6. How does one achieve Discordian enlightenment?

7. How does Wilson evaluate the California Medical Facility in Vacaville where Timothy Leary was imprisoned?

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

9. What are the seven factors Timothy Leary uses in comparing all human interaction to a game model?

10. What does Wilson note may be the final secret of the Illuminati?

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