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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of the existence of parallel worlds?

2. Why does Wilson feel like a failure as his 42nd birthday approaches?

3. Which neural circuit is the first to be evolved?

4. How did Henry Adams believe technology would increase?

5. What is the 7th brain circuit called?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which paranormal phenomena does Wilson believe can be accounted for within the possibilities of quantum theory?

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

3. What does Dr. Paul Segall conclude makes immortality possible in his view?

4. What is superluminal information?

5. What approaches to immortality have been researched by Dr. Paul Segall?

6. How did Wilson's daughter Luna stop the wheel of Karma?

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

8. How is the fifth brain circuitry activated?

9. What is the Black Rite?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Wilson contends that paranormal experiences can be explained as influences from other planets, influences from other times or dimensions, influences from our own brain circuitry, or some combination of those things. Which explanation do you find most convincing? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Various organizations throughout history have claimed the title of Illuminati. Write a persuasive essay outlining whether you do or do not believe that such an organization is active in world politics today.

Essay Topic 3

A reliable narrator is one whose account of events can be believed. Would you characterize Wilson as a reliable narrator? Use examples from the text to show which of Wilson's unusual experiences seem to you to be believable or unbelievable.

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