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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 term was a popular phrase in early twentieth century America, which meant something like "get out while the getting is good?"
(a) Ta-ta.
(b) Ciauo.
(c) Giddyup.
(d) 23 Skidoo.

2. Crowley asserts in Chapter 4 that the feminine can conquer the masculine because it has the power of what?
(a) Love.
(b) Reproduction.
(c) Death.
(d) Beauty.

3. The first triad in Chapter 0 exists even before what?
(a) Love.
(b) God.
(c) Man.
(d) Earth.

4. In Chapter 7, the ashes of the spheres were burnt by the _____ and transformed back into the Word.
(a) Isis.
(b) Nuit.
(c) Horus.
(d) Magus.

5. What is the fourth part of the Sephirah?
(a) Hisuid.
(b) Ra.
(c) Nuit.
(d) Chesed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 37 Crowley asserts that both thought and meditation are what?

2. The Gun-Barrel is both a reference to the will and the what?

3. The god Horus is a god of what ancient culture?

4. Who does Crowley speak to in Chapter 29?

5. Crowley asserts in Chapter 30 that in order to experience the Truth, a person must move to a higher level of _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Crowley associate disease in "Steeped Horsehair"? Where is man's potential?

2. How does Crowley equate love with death in "The Stag-Beetle"?

3. In "Onion Peelings," what does Crowley assert about tragedy and comedy?

4. What is Crawley's message to the reader in "The Swan"?

5. Describe Crowley's depiction of the structure of the universe in "The Glow Worm."

6. What is the Gun-Barrel symbolic of?

7. What does Crowley write of the Knights Templar?

8. What is Crowley's position on disease in "The Mountaineer"?

9. How does Crowley describe the creation of the universe in Chapter 6, "Caviar"?

10. What does Crowley question of the feminine energy in "Peaches"? What is his conclusion?

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