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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Nikola Tesla and Gopi Krishna have in common?
(a) An ability to write poetry.
(b) An interest in Buddhism.
(c) Early death.
(d) Mystical visions after mysterious illnesses.

2. Why is a non-local universe meaningless?
(a) Nobody cares about it.
(b) Events there are completely random.
(c) It is impossible.
(d) Even if it exists, we could never detect it.

3. How long does Isaac Asimov claim is the cycle between the discovery of a scientific principle and its application in changing the world?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Sixty years.
(d) Twenty years.

4. Who does Saul-Paul Sirag believe is the Higher Intelligence behind these mysterious communications?
(a) Our descendants in the past.
(b) Our neighbors from Sirius.
(c) Ourselves in the future.
(d) Our ancestors in the future.

5. How many circuits does Timothy Leary believe the human brain possesses?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twenty-three.

6. What does Schrodinger's Cat Paradox illustrate?
(a) The reality of quantum mechanics.
(b) The limits of human knowledge.
(c) Why cats have nine lives.
(d) The uncertainty of observation.

7. What is the common name for the first neural circuit?
(a) Ego.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Id.
(d) Consciousness.

8. How does Kerry Thornley decide to identify himself after his ID has been stolen?
(a) By renaming himself.
(b) By his mother's maiden name.
(c) By his thumbprint.
(d) By reading his iris.

9. What did Wilson's children believe as adolescents that he thought was "bosh"?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Sufism.
(c) Gastroenterology.
(d) Astrology.

10. What does Dr. Paul Segall define as a stochastic process?
(a) The random decay of random cells.
(b) The pre-programmed evolution toward death.
(c) The cryonic preservation of selected people.
(d) The preservation of selected cells.

11. Who does Robert Temple believe was the last to receive the knowledge from Sirius?
(a) Timothy Leary.
(b) Proclus.
(c) Mohammed.
(d) Himself.

12. What does Wilson believe will happen by 1986?
(a) Human life extended to hundreds of years.
(b) Visits from extraterrestrials to Earth.
(c) Death eliminated from human experience.
(d) Human landings on other planets.

13. In Wilson's division of human life into eight stages, what happens at the eighth level?
(a) Cosmic union.
(b) Extraterrestrial migration.
(c) Urbanized civilization.
(d) Immortality.

14. What does the 4th circuit introduce that the other circuits lack?
(a) Comprehension.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Time.
(d) Space.

15. What is the local universe?
(a) Anything we can detect moving faster than light.
(b) Anything that is undetectable.
(c) Anything we can detect.
(d) Anything we can detect moving within the speed of light.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is November 23 sacred to Discordians?

2. When did Saul-Paul Sirag believe time machines would be developed?

3. What is Wilson's working hypothesis about his contact with "luminous beings?"

4. What is the most extreme understanding among those who activate the 8th circuit?

5. What does Kerry Thornley come to believe about the Discordians?

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