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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. Whose work does Timothy Leary tell the author he was hoping to complete?
(a) Horus.
(b) Merlin.
(c) David Hilliard.
(d) Aleister Crowley.

2. Who communicated with Aleister Crowley's wife Rose via extrasensory perception?
(a) Aiwass.
(b) Kohoutek.
(c) Horus.
(d) Nuit.

3. What does psychiatrist R.D. Laing believe is the principle cause of psychotic breakdowns?
(a) Disinformation.
(b) Information overload.
(c) Lack of information.
(d) Misinformation.

4. Who taught that normal consciousness is self-created delusion?
(a) Mohammed.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Shiva.
(d) Jesus Christ.

5. What planet did both a West Virginia salesman and a Washington, D.C. law student independently claim had sent them a visitor?
(a) Lanalus.
(b) Uranus.
(c) Sirius.
(d) Jupiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Timothy Leary say is the message?

2. What does Brad Steiger say one must have before beginning a study of the occult?

3. What does the author believe Timothy Leary would regard as the greatest "epistemological sin"?

4. What constellation contains the dog star Sirius?

5. What does the "Immortalist Underground" believe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Chapel Perilous?

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

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. Why does Wilson believe that immortality is an actual physical possibility for human beings?

5. How does one achieve Discordian enlightenment?

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

7. What value does Timothy Leary teach LSD can achieve for mankind?

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

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

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

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