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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of tone was missed by the video cassette reviewer?
(a) Whimsical.
(b) Ironical.
(c) Satirical.
(d) Banal.

2. Claims that cannot be tested are _______________.
(a) Intruiging.
(b) Almost certainly true.
(c) Rock solid.
(d) Worthless.

3. What is the driver's name?
(a) Peter B. Rabbit.
(b) James T. Kirk.
(c) David R. Peterson.
(d) William F. Buckley.

4. According to popular myth, what do Satanists do with babies?
(a) Eat them.
(b) Sacrifice them.
(c) Raise them to be Satanists.
(d) Give them to aliens.

5. How many UFO reports have there been since 1947?
(a) Six hundred and twenty thousand.
(b) Over a million.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Approximately half a million.

6. According to P.T. Barnum, what is born every minute?
(a) A sucker.
(b) A Republican.
(c) Five hundred chickens.
(d) A circus freak.

7. What does the NSA do?
(a) Catches drug dealers.
(b) Assassinates world leaders.
(c) Reads the world's mail.
(d) Sends satellites into space.

8. What group 'powerfully influenced' Christian philosophy?
(a) The students of Socrates.
(b) Aristoteliens.
(c) Neo-Platonists.
(d) Platonists.

9. 'Those in power ... have a vested interest in discouraging _____________.'
(a) Skepticism.
(b) Alien invasion.
(c) Credulity.
(d) Demons.

10. Who wrote A Candle in the Dark?
(a) John Salem.
(b) Elton John.
(c) Thomas Ady.
(d) George Burroughs.

11. What is the contrail of Aurora said to look like?
(a) Pizza slices on acid.
(b) Donuts on a rope.
(c) Pies on an axis.
(d) Flying saucers.

12. Where on Mars is the 'face' located?
(a) Cydonia.
(b) Tharsis.
(c) Planum Australe.
(d) Iani Chaos.

13. What is the most popular movie rental at the time of writing?
(a) Star Wars.
(b) Jurassic Park.
(c) When Harry Met Sally.
(d) Dumb and Dumber.

14. How many schizophrenics are there on Earth?
(a) Over 100 million.
(b) Under 30 million.
(c) Over 135 million.
(d) Over 50 million.

15. Where did crop circles originate from?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) America.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carl Sagan work mostly with?

2. Who is the father of medicine?

3. What is the key to the success of science?

4. How many of the world's scientists work at least part time for the military?

5. What country is Nicholas Spanos from?

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