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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pp. 126-148.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What dictum of Yeats did the author come to understand?
(a) "Man has created woman."
(b) "Man has created himself."
(c) "Man has created death."
(d) "Man has created God."

3. What message did the entity convey to the author?
(a) Forgive because God demands it.
(b) Forgiveness is the door to eternity.
(c) They are happiest who have forgiven most.
(d) Forgive because there is no other escape.

4. What Jungian archetype is seen in leprechauns, Peter Pan, and Mr. Spock?
(a) Mescalito.
(b) Coyote.
(c) Don Juan.
(d) Mullah Nasrudin.

5. What is Wilson's working hypothesis about his contact with "luminous beings?"
(a) They are probably Hindu adepts.
(b) They are probably created by his nervous system.
(c) They are probably angels.
(d) They are probably extraterrestrials.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the study of the process of aging?

2. What does the goddess Nuit claim to have done for the author in his childhood?

3. What is the scientific term for stopping life processes and then restarting them?

4. What has Wilson been able to do since he began his occult explorations?

5. What does the "Immortalist Underground" believe?

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