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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) Early death.
(b) An interest in Buddhism.
(c) An ability to write poetry.
(d) Mystical visions after mysterious illnesses.

2. What is the scientific term for stopping life processes and then restarting them?
(a) The hiatus.
(b) Recess.
(c) Cryogenics.
(d) Suspended animation.

3. According to Timothy Leary, what kind of parents did Lao-Tse say were most likely to experience the Great Tao?
(a) Those who are willing to create good karma.
(b) Those who are willing to teach their children.
(c) Those who are willing to learn from prophecies.
(d) Those who are willing to learn from their children.

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

5. What pattern did conspiracy theorists find surrounding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King?
(a) A pattern of official investigations.
(b) A pattern of clues leading to Fidel Castro.
(c) A pattern of false trails and red herrings.
(d) A pattern of body doubles and disguises.

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

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

8. What was the earliest hieroglyphic for Osiris?
(a) An eye in a triangle.
(b) An eye plus a throne.
(c) A closed eye.
(d) A fish plus a hawk.

9. What does Dr. Jack Sarfatti call limiting our view to the local universe?
(a) Oxygen-based chauvinism.
(b) Electromagnetic chauvinism.
(c) Nativism.
(d) Colonialism.

10. Who does Mae Brussel claim the terrorist left is made up of?
(a) Right-wing conspiracy theorists in hiding.
(b) FBI members trying to discredit the rest of the left.
(c) CIA members trying to discredit the rest of the left.
(d) Those who are left.

11. What did Nikola Tesla see in his final mystic vision?
(a) The universe is founded on the number 666.
(b) The universe obeys the law of fives.
(c) The universe is based on the number twenty-three.
(d) The universe obeys the law of octaves.

12. What does Wilson claim is an easy step?
(a) From pain to agony.
(b) From pity to self-pity.
(c) From fear to terror.
(d) From acceptance to joy.

13. How far away is Sirius?
(a) 6 light years.
(b) 8.6 light years.
(c) 33 light years.
(d) 2.5 light years.

14. How does Wilson claim to be able to predict people's responses to conspiracy theories?
(a) They will believe whatever they believed beforehand.
(b) They will not be interested one way or the other.
(c) They will change their minds when they hear new evidence.
(d) They are completely unpredictable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is synchronicity as formulated by Jung and Pauli?

2. Why does Wilson think it ironic that the play Illuminatus was presented under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth?

3. What does Charles Berlitz claim to have found in the Bermuda Triangle?

4. In daily speech, what is the 4th circuit known as?

5. What effect did Sufi heart-chakra exercises have on Wilson?

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