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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 gave credence to conspiracy theories in 1974?
(a) The imprisonment of Timothy Leary.
(b) The arrest of Joanna Leary.
(c) The visits from extraterrestrials.
(d) The Watergate breakin.

2. Who wrote the Mothman Prophecies?
(a) Robert Wilson.
(b) Timothy Leary.
(c) Don Juan Mathus.
(d) John Keel.

3. What effect did Sufi heart-chakra exercises have on Wilson?
(a) He willed his book into publication.
(b) He got dizzy.
(c) He experienced typical anxiety syndrome.
(d) He felt at one with the universe.

4. Why is November 23 sacred to Discordians?
(a) It is the day their religion was founded.
(b) It is the day the world will end.
(c) It is Harpo Marx's birthday.
(d) It commemorates the first extraterrestrial contact.

5. What does Wilson claim is an easy step?
(a) From acceptance to joy.
(b) From pain to agony.
(c) From fear to terror.
(d) From pity to self-pity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Bozo?

2. How does Timothy Leary characterize the first four chemical elements?

3. Who wrote The Day the Dollar Dies?

4. What is a cyborg?

5. What is the 6th circuit called?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does Wilson attribute the "miracle" of real communication with his adolescent children?

2. What does Bell's Theorem suggest about the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky demonstration?

3. What caused Wilson to become fearless?

4. What does astronomer Robert Temple learn about the African Dogon tribe that is hard to explain?

5. When does the fourth circuit in Timothy Leary's construct of brain function appear in the developing human being?

6. What theory does Dr. Paul Segall believe he was first to develop that is now used by numbers of investigators?

7. What did Charles Berlitz have in common with Wilson?

8. In the Mothman Prophecies, how does John Keel account for the discrepancies in the predictions?

9. What effect did poverty have on Wilson's understanding?

10. What would pull the "cosmic trigger," according to Robert Temple in the Sirius Mystery?

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