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

2. What is the first law of Discordianism?
(a) To each his own reality.
(b) God is a crazy woman.
(c) Convictions cause convicts.
(d) Conceptualization is art, and you are the artist.

3. What unusual affiliations does the author learn Father Hidalgo held in San Miguel de Allende?
(a) Father Hidalgo was both a Discordian and a Jesuit.
(b) Father Hidalgo was both a Jesuit and an extraterrestrial.
(c) Father Hidalgo was both a Jesuit and a Mason.
(d) Father Hidalgo was both Mexican and American.

4. What is Timothy Leary's principle of neurological relativism?
(a) No two people have identical experiences.
(b) Any person is either more or less intelligent than any other.
(c) On an given day, a person is either more or less intelligent than the day before.
(d) No experience can be exactly replicated.

5. What did the author first learn about from Michael Horowitz?
(a) Emperor Norton.
(b) Sufism.
(c) Starseed transmissions.
(d) Rasputin's teachings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the goddess Nuit claim to have done for the author in his childhood?

2. What does Wilson contend the War on Drugs brought about?

3. What three factors does Timothy Leary believe are critical to correct use of mind-altering drugs?

4. What percentage of prisoners in Timothy Leary's rehabilitation project were able to stay out of prison?

5. What Jungian archetype is seen in leprechauns, Peter Pan, and Mr. Spock?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the different forms taken by Mescalito in different myth systems?

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

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

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

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

7. What are the dog days?

8. What example does Wilson give of what Freud calls "projection"?

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

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

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