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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. For what was Timothy Leary arrested and imprisoned, according to the author?
(a) Publishing directions for growing marijuana.
(b) Owning two joints of marijuana.
(c) Selling two joints of marijuana.
(d) Advocating marijuana use to college students.

2. What feature distinguishes the visitor from Sirius to the Dogon tribe?
(a) A hawk head.
(b) Claws for hands.
(c) A fish tail.
(d) A third eye.

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

4. Who founded the religion of Discordianism?
(a) Alan Watts.
(b) Aldous Huxley.
(c) Robert Anton Wilson.
(d) Kerry Thornley.

5. How many scientists does Saul Paul Sirag claim have received extraterrestrial communication?
(a) More than 10.
(b) More than 1,000.
(c) More than 50.
(d) More than 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author experience as a "past life"?

2. Who dictated the Book of the Law to Aleister Crowley?

3. Why did Luna believe such experiences did not occur in the author's presence?

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

5. What mystical experience happened to the author's youngest daughter Luna?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. According to Wilson's interpretation of Sufi teaching, when is the moment you are closer to Illumination than at any other time?

3. What was Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law?

4. How does one achieve Discordian enlightenment?

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

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

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

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

9. What faculty did Wilson develop while doing a Tarot card divination for his daughter Karuna?

10. What is Chapel Perilous?

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