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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 is Chapel Perilous?
(a) The location of the Discordian religion.
(b) A mental crossroads calling your beliefs into question.
(c) A book written by Aleister Crowley.
(d) A name for a bad drug experience.

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

3. What does the author learn from giving divinations with Tarot cards?
(a) It is difficult to deceive those who are pure in heart.
(b) It is impossible to deceive the honest in heart.
(c) It is easy to deceive those who are most skeptical.
(d) It is easy to deceive those who want to believe.

4. What constellation contains the dog star Sirius?
(a) Ursa Major.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Gemini.
(d) Orion.

5. What phenomenon did Freud call "projection?"
(a) Attributing our characteristics to others.
(b) Seeing what we expect to see.
(c) Sending our essence into the void.
(d) Sending telepathic messages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drug did Wilson say led him to Hedonic Gratification?

2. What dictum of Yeats did the author come to understand?

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

4. What do Discordians espouse in place of dogmas?

5. What message did the entity convey to the author?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Does the philosopher Santayana believe that humans are better at seeing or believing?

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

4. What does Timothy Leary believe is the purpose of the higher neurological circuits that are turned on by use of psychedelic drugs?

5. What were the Starseed Transmissions?

6. What are the dog days?

7. What is the Discordian Law of Fives?

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

9. How does one achieve Discordian enlightenment?

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

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