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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Appendix 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what researcher does the author refer when commenting on the first technique in Appendix 1?
(a) Klein.
(b) Kristoff.
(c) Tamachi.
(d) Meduna.

2. What happens when mescalin or LSD is used in conjunction with the second technique described in Appendix 1?
(a) The effects of the drugs are intensified and enriched.
(b) The user is more prone to nausea, vomiting or seizure.
(c) The effects of the drugs immediately wear off.
(d) Any negative effects being experienced by the user will disappear.

3. What does the author wonder about the neurological patterns produced during visionary experiences at the end of Appendix 1?
(a) What happens to these patterns when the experience is over.
(b) How the experiencer's brain is affected by the experience.
(c) How these patterns can be reproduced at the user's will.
(d) Why people are so fond of experiencing these patterns.

4. What do schizophrenics share with other psychotics, according to the author?
(a) They don't share the same symptoms, but they share the same illness and brain dysfunction.
(b) They share the same symptoms, and the intensity of those symptoms is about equal.
(c) They have the same symptoms, but schizophrenics experience them to a greater extent.
(d) They have the same symptoms, but schizophrenics experience them to a lesser extent.

5. To what sort of life are schizophrenics condemned, according to the author?
(a) Ineffectiveness and solitude.
(b) Apathy and catatonia.
(c) Fury and isolation.
(d) Frustration and anguish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT one of the "visionary arts" that the author mentions at the beginning of Appendix 3?

2. The author states in Appendix 3 that the cinematographic art of the distorted documentary seems to presage the end of what?

3. According to the author, what did one subject see while under the effects of mescalin and the second technique described in Appendix 1?

4. What group of mentally-ill people does the author write about in Appendix 6?

5. The author compares schizophrenics to which of Sheol's beings?

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