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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pp. 27-52.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three factors does Timothy Leary believe are critical to correct use of mind-altering drugs?
(a) Personality, DNA, and setting.
(b) Ambiance, companions, and dosage.
(c) Time, place, and patient.
(d) Dosage, set, and setting.

2. What did Joseph Simonton claim to receive from an extraterrestrial?
(a) Flowers.
(b) A trip through the atmosphere.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Enlightenment.

3. Why was Timothy Leary fired from teaching at Harvard?
(a) Dispensing illegal substances to students.
(b) Advocating the violent overthrow of the government.
(c) Original research on drugs and poor first amendment usage.
(d) Plagiarism.

4. Which of Wilson's 24 selves has veto power over all the others?
(a) The Skeptic.
(b) The Shaman.
(c) The Editor.
(d) The Wizard.

5. What is the motto of the Firesign Theatre?
(a) You know everything that's wrong.
(b) None of us knows what's wrong.
(c) Everything you know is wrong.
(d) Everything they know is wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Nobel laureate developed the idea of multiple models in sub-atomic physics?

2. What does the author claim that marijuana enabled him to do?

3. What planet did both a West Virginia salesman and a Washington, D.C. law student independently claim had sent them a visitor?

4. What does Dr. Jacques Vallee believe about extraterrestrial communication?

5. What phenomenon does Wilson claim has been verified by thousands of researchers over a period of decades?

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