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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statue does Crowley estimate is actually an approximation of the male body?
(a) The Thinker.
(b) Madonna.
(c) Venus de Milo.
(d) David.

2. Crowley indicates that Chapter 38 is only comprehensible to whom?
(a) Laylah.
(b) The Golden Dawn.
(c) God.
(d) E.A. Freemasons.

3. What is the Feminine referred to in Chapter 3?
(a) The Holy.
(b) The Woman.
(c) The One.
(d) The Goddess.

4. Chapter 27 tells the story of a what who had all material pleasures?
(a) Shell.
(b) Sorcerer.
(c) Flower.
(d) Rainbow.

5. In Chapter 0, Crowley describes that God created both knowledge and what?
(a) Light.
(b) Love.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what shoots down through The Abyss, uniting what is above with what is below?

2. What character is introduced in Chapter 28?

3. ___ refers to the Greek goat god but is also a generic name used to refer to all who live above The Abyss.

4. The Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram is an official ritual of the Angel and ____.

5. Crowley compares speech with what in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Gun-Barrel symbolic of?

2. What does the Oyster represent and what is Crowley's meaning in this chapter?

3. Describe Crowley's use of numerology in "The Elephant and the Tortoise."

4. How does Crowley equate love with death in "The Stag-Beetle"?

5. Describe the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

6. How is Crowley's depiction of God different in "The Smoking Dog" than in previous chapters?

7. What does Crowley write of the Venus de Milo in his commentary of the text? What does this imply?

8. Where does Crowley associate disease in "Steeped Horsehair"? Where is man's potential?

9. What does Crowley write of The Abyss in "Windlestraws"?

10. Discuss the Buddhist principles that Crowley introduces in "Pilgrim Talk."

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