1. Which is NOT an object or work of art that the author references in comparison to the subjects of La Tour's paintings?
(a) Piero's angels.
(b) A Bodhisattva from Khmer.
(c) Pharaoh.
(d) Da Vinci's apostles.

2. Why do people sometimes leave flowers as a religious offering, according to the author?
(a) Because they don't really understand the significance of doing so.
(b) Because they feel, on some level, that they are giving back something which is indigenous to Heaven.
(c) Because they are a living sacrifice but not associated with feelings of guilt and shame the way other sacrifices are.
(d) Because they don't have anything precious to give, but flowers are always available.

3. To what does the author compare someone fasting and self-flagellating, instead of using drugs, to achieve a visionary experience?
(a) Tying your hands together and trying to knit.
(b) Burning down a house to roast a pig.
(c) Rowing a boat, or using a motor.
(d) Driving somewhere instead of flying there.

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 produce the visions at will, regardless of the methods they try.
(b) They are unable to recall the experience in anything approaching its original intensity.
(c) They can only have the visions when they are in the right frame of mind to do so.
(d) They never have the same vision twice.

5. Why is it important that people can sometimes be hypnotized by gemstones?
(a) It demonstrates the suggestibility of humans.
(b) It shows the power that art has over the human mind.
(c) It offers another way for people to achieve the same results that they would get with drugs.
(d) It gets psychiatrists another step closer to understanding how hypnotism works.