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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What book did the brothers Terrence and Dennis McKenna write that Wilson refers to?
(a) The Invisible Landscape.
(b) The Conscious Circle.
(c) Future Shock.
(d) I Ching.

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

4. What does Wilson say is the unfortunate result of the suppression of scientific research into drugs?
(a) An outlaw drug culture.
(b) A boring society.
(c) Undiscovered drugs.
(d) A disrespect for law.

5. What is an intersteller hybrid?
(a) A strengthened human being.
(b) A descendant of normal humanity and a space god.
(c) A mixture of ethnicities.
(d) A human with Rh negative blood factor.

6. Why is November 23 sacred to Discordians?
(a) It is the day the world will end.
(b) It commemorates the first extraterrestrial contact.
(c) It is the day their religion was founded.
(d) It is Harpo Marx's birthday.

7. How far does Dr. Paul Segall think he will be able to extend human life?
(a) To an average of 100 years.
(b) To an average of 200 years.
(c) To an average of 1000 years.
(d) To an average of 400 or 500 years.

8. How does Wilson define objectivity?
(a) The doctrine that the universe exists only within us.
(b) The doctrine that the universe is created by the investigator.
(c) The doctrine that the universe exists apart from the ideas of the investigator.
(d) The doctrine that the universe is a joint creation of God and the investigator.

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

10. 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 learn from their children.
(b) Those who are willing to teach their children.
(c) Those who are willing to create good karma.
(d) Those who are willing to learn from prophecies.

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

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

13. Who was Dennis Martino?
(a) A paramilitary left-wing terrorist.
(b) A Leary spy in the CIA.
(c) A paramilitary right-wing terrorist.
(d) A government spy in the Leary defense team.

14. What are the three phases Timothy Leary postulates for each of the eight circuits?
(a) Input, decision making, and output.
(b) Passive, Hedonic, and Synergistic.
(c) Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age.
(d) Mammalian, predatory, and pack-bonded.

15. What group has been studied by Robert Temple about their knowledge of Sirius?
(a) The Berkeleyans.
(b) The Babylonians.
(c) The Dogon tribe.
(d) The Egyptians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Bozo?

2. What does Jacques Vallee believe visitors from space actually are?

3. According to Duncan MacNaughton, what is the purpose of the long dark tunnels in the Great Pyramid?

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

5. What does Wilson claim everyone who gets involved with parapsychology will experience?

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