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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 is Chapel Perilous?
(a) The location of the Discordian religion.
(b) A name for a bad drug experience.
(c) A mental crossroads calling your beliefs into question.
(d) A book written by Aleister Crowley.

2. What personage appears to most children contacted by extraterrestrials?
(a) A lady in a silver bubble.
(b) A large blue man.
(c) A little green man.
(d) A lady in a blue light.

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

4. Who founded the religion of Discordianism?
(a) Robert Anton Wilson.
(b) Alan Watts.
(c) Kerry Thornley.
(d) Aldous Huxley.

5. What does Timothy Leary believe should replace the model of psychologist and patient?
(a) Adept and client.
(b) Guru and apprentice.
(c) Salesperson and customer.
(d) Research team.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author believe Timothy Leary would regard as the greatest "epistemological sin"?

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

3. What does Wilson contend the War on Drugs brought about?

4. What is a synchronicity?

5. What did Joseph Simonton claim to receive from an extraterrestrial?

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