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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. What film does the author reference as an example of the distorted documentary?
(a) "Queen Mab."
(b) "The Revolt of Islam."
(c) "NY, NY."
(d) "The Living Desert."

2. What does the world inhabited by schizophrenics and other psychotics resemble, according to the author?
(a) A psychedelic fugue.
(b) The world of the dead.
(c) The spirits seen by a psychic.
(d) A sane person's nervous breakdown.

3. To whom does the author attribute the concept of Hades, mentioned in Appendix 6?
(a) Antigone.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Homer.

4. According to the author, at the end of Appendix 1 what is one claim that is made almost universally by visionaries?
(a) They are unable to recall the experience in anything approaching its original intensity.
(b) They are unable to produce the visions at will, regardless of the methods they try.
(c) They never have the same vision twice.
(d) They can only have the visions when they are in the right frame of mind to do so.

5. According to the author, where do the mentally-ill people discussed at the beginning of Appendix 6 spend their time?
(a) In Hell.
(b) In Heaven.
(c) None of these places.
(d) On Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the drawback to the "visionary arts" mentioned in Appendix 3?

2. What does the author say at the end of Appendix 3 about the past?

3. Which is NOT a practice that mimics the effects which result from the first technique described in Appendix 1?

4. What is the second technique, described by the author in Appendix 1, for inducing a visionary state?

5. What chemical change does the author mention at the end of Appendix 6?

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