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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a Satori?
(a) A Zen master.
(b) An unusually large ocean wave.
(c) A moment of enlightenment.
(d) A Hindu ashram.

2. What are "Dog Days"?
(a) Indian summer days.
(b) September 8 to October 31.
(c) July 23 to September 8.
(d) Days of excessive heat.

3. What is the slogan of the cryologists?
(a) "It's only a matter of time."
(b) "I'll see you again."
(c) "On to immortality."
(d) "Freeze - wait - reanimate."

4. What does the "Immortalist Underground" believe?
(a) Extending life is improper.
(b) Humans are biodegradable.
(c) Death is unnecessary.
(d) Life can be extended by as much as 20-25 years.

5. What is the common response when famous people claim extraterrestrial communication?
(a) Their sanity is called into question.
(b) Nobody pays any attention.
(c) They are interviews on the news.
(d) They receive lucrative book contracts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Timothy Leary say is the message?

2. In the Babylonian myth, how did Ishtar have to enter Eternity?

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

4. What does the author come to believe is present in all things, living and non-living?

5. What does psychiatrist R.D. Laing believe is the principle cause of psychotic breakdowns?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the experience of Joseph Simonton typical or atypical of UFO contactees?

2. What does Wilson consider to have been Aleister Crowley's major achievement?

3. Does the philosopher Santayana believe that humans are better at seeing or believing?

4. What is the difference of opinion between those who are friends of Timothy Leary and those who are his enemies?

5. What example does Wilson give of what Freud calls "projection"?

6. Why does Timothy Leary claim in a letter to be pleased with the prison administration?

7. What are the two meta-models Wilson suggests to account for all of his data?

8. What are the three submodels for Bell's Theorem that all things are indivisible?

9. What does Timothy Leary believe is the purpose of the higher neurological circuits that are turned on by use of psychedelic drugs?

10. What is the Discordian Law of Fives?

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