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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 a synchronicity?
(a) An energy crossroads.
(b) A gateway to another dimension.
(c) A lucky coincidence.
(d) An unexpected visitor.

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

3. Why does Timothy Leary say the prison administration is like a Van Allen belt?
(a) They protect his privacy.
(b) They protect his personal safety.
(c) They protect him from paparazzi.
(d) They protect his working time.

4. What do Discordians espouse in place of dogmas?
(a) Mousemas.
(b) Catmas.
(c) Michaelmas.
(d) Christmas.

5. What does the author believe Timothy Leary would regard as the greatest "epistemological sin"?
(a) Failing to understand the data.
(b) Falsifying the data.
(c) Speculating beyond the data.
(d) Disclosing the data.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Timothy Leary name his studies?

2. What planet did both a West Virginia salesman and a Washington, D.C. law student independently claim had sent them a visitor?

3. What is the common response when famous people claim extraterrestrial communication?

4. What is the motto of the Firesign Theatre?

5. What is the name of Dr. John Lilly's tape the author uses for self-instruction?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Wilson claim a person would have to do to refuse to believe in telepathy?

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

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

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

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

7. What are the rules for the Socratic approach in Discordianism?

8. What are the three submodels for Bell's Theorem that all things are indivisible?

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

10. What were the Starseed Transmissions?

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