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

2. Who is Our Lady of Guadalupe believed to be?
(a) An Aztec goddess and the Egyptian goddess, Nuit.
(b) Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary.
(c) Saint Brigit and the Virgin Mary.
(d) The Virgin Mary and an Aztec sky-goddess.

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

4. What is the Socratic approach to Discordian evangelism?
(a) Starting an argument by asking questions.
(b) Making blind assertions.
(c) Using fear and intimidation.
(d) Using figurative symbolism.

5. What does the author regard as Aleister Crowley's major achievement?
(a) His Nietzchean Supermanism.
(b) His notorious anti-Christian philosophy.
(c) His anarcho-fascist Darwinism.
(d) The synthesis of occult traditions with scientific methods.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Babylonian myth, how did Ishtar have to enter Eternity?

2. What is the "final secret" of the Illuminati?

3. What does the author claim that marijuana enabled him to do?

4. Who does Idries Shah believe the Illuminati to be?

5. Who imprisoned Timothy Leary after he escaped from an American prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Chapel Perilous?

2. How does one achieve Discordian enlightenment?

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

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

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

6. What is the difference of opinion between those who are friends of Timothy Leary and those who are his enemies?

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

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

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

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

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