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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. This is another name for Hell as well as Consciousness and the Universe.

2. What is the title of Chapter 5?

3. Holy Three-in-Naught are Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit, and who?

4. What is the name of the first triad in Chapter 0?

5. In Chapter 5, Crowley asserts that anything that can be thought must be what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Crowley's position on disease in "The Mountaineer"?

2. What does the figure of Laylah represent to Crowley? What is written of her in "The Pole Star"?

3. What is the Gun-Barrel symbolic of?

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

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

6. What does Crowley write of Horus in "The Cry of the Hawk"?

7. Describe Crowley's meaning in his analogy of dreams to consciousness in Chapter 30.

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

9. Describe the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What reference does Crowley make to Samson from the Holy Bible in the text? What is this in reference to? What is Crowley's message in this chapter?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the chapters "The Oyster" and "Peaches." What subject and themes do these chapters share? How do they differ? What does Crowley express about the feminine in these chapters?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of yoga and meditation within Crowley's teachings. What yogic positions does he describe in the text and why? What breathing and meditation techniques are cited?

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