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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the drawback to the "visionary arts" mentioned in Appendix 3?
(a) They are ephemeral, and earlier masterpieces have been lost to us.
(b) They require a great deal of time, effort and expense to put on.
(c) They can only be experienced in large groups.
(d) They are experienced differently by each individual, so no one understands how another experiences them.

2. According to the author, what are the odds of a negative reaction with the second technique described in Appendix 1?
(a) 1 in 25.
(b) 1 in 100.
(c) 1 in 80.
(d) 1 in 70.

3. According to the author, what is the most important effect of the first technique mentioned in Appendix 1?
(a) Subjects perceiving that they are able to communicate with a higher power.
(b) The cheapness and availability of the substance used.
(c) A marked increase in the subject's ability to see things with their eyes closed.
(d) The rarity of negative side effects in users.

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

5. What is striking about the painting of the butcher bird, to which the author refers at the end of Appendix 5?
(a) It stands alone with nothing on any side of it.
(b) It is drawn in painstaking detail.
(c) It is looking directly at the viewer.
(d) It has an almost human expression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the political purpose of regalia and pageantry, according to the author?

2. What results were produced when a researcher prodded parts of the brain with a fine electrode?

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 happened to "pyrotechny" after the fall of Rome?

5. What were the two primary uses of the science of "pyrotechny," according to the author?

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