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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. What does Crowley refer to as man's deepest state of mind?

2. The ritual that Crowley explains in Chapter 62 is about being reborn like a what?

3. What does Crowley assert is all that can be proven in Chapter 45?

4. Crowley asserts in Chapter 60 that the best men in England are what?

5. Crowley writes in his commentary that the travelers in the desert are the what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Crowley alluding to within "The Duck-Billed Platypus" in describing the Rose?

2. What does Crowley indicate about light in the ritual of "Twig?"

3. How does Crowley describe certainty and doubt in "Terrier Work"?

4. Describe Crowley's equation of creation and destruction in "The Fool's Knot."

5. What is the process for returning to infinite nothing, as described in Chapter 74?

6. How does Crowley relate restaurants and sex in "Constancy"?

7. What symbols does Crowley use in "Plover's Eggs"? What do they represent?

8. Describe Crowley's Buddhist influences in "Buttons and Rosettes." How does his philosophy differ from Buddhist principles here?

9. Describe Crowley's views of women, as noted in "The Dowser."

10. What is Crowley's conclusion in "Phaeton" regarding the horse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Knights Templar and their association with the Free Masons. How does Crowley make this association, and do outside sources support his theory?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the overarching themes of language's inability to adequately communicate thought and feeling and contradiction. What symbols and metaphors does the author use to express these themes?

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