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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did it take for history to pass from god-driven to human-driven?
(a) A few hundred years.
(b) Just a few decades.
(c) A couple thousand years.
(d) One hundred thousand years or more.

2. What hunting people lives in the Kalahari desert?
(a) The Kung San?
(b) The Kung! San.
(c) The !Kung San.
(d) The Kung San!

3. What is it impossible to tell?
(a) The whole truth and nothing but the truth.
(b) Tall tales.
(c) The time of day on Earth while standing on the moon.
(d) The difference between identical twins.

4. According to 1983 calculations, how much will the Earth's temperature be reduced by nuclear winter?
(a) 10-15 degrees C.
(b) 15-20 degrees F.
(c) 10-15 degrees F.
(d) 15-20 degrees C.

5. Who sets limits on human ingenuity?
(a) Nature.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Governments.
(d) God.

6. Who was the scientific director of the Manhattan project?
(a) J. Robert Oppenheimer.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Harry S. Truman.

7. In what year was the Alien and Sedition Act created?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1942.

8. According to the Nation of Islam, who created white people?
(a) A mad scientist.
(b) Allah.
(c) Asians.
(d) Ares.

9. In 1993, how many of the people of China, as in America, knew the Earth went around the sun once a year?
(a) Approximately two quarters.
(b) No more than half.
(c) Nearly everyone.
(d) No less than a third.

10. What percentage of students in the U.S. dislike school?
(a) 22%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 8%.

11. How did Albert Einstein describe Linus Pauling?
(a) A 'real genius.'
(b) A 'real jerk.'
(c) A 'real friend.'
(d) A 'real pain.'

12. What sport does Carl Sagan like?
(a) Lacrosse.
(b) Football.
(c) Hockey.
(d) Basketball.

13. What does ACLU stand for?
(a) Annotated Corporate Loss Unit.
(b) After Class Let's Unite.
(c) American Civil Liberties Union.
(d) American Coalition of Liberal Unity.

14. What children's game is similar to the way we pass information without reading?
(a) Telephone.
(b) Hopscotch.
(c) Hide-and-seek.
(d) Monopoly.

15. How could James Clerk Maxwell be described as?
(a) All of the above.
(b) A stylish dresser.
(c) A nerd.
(d) Ugly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the chances of being cured at Lourdes?

2. What other use for nuclear weapons was suggested by Edward Teller?

3. According to Alan Cromer, why is science difficult?

4. What is 'soul-stuff' not made of?

5. What nation exploded the first hydrogen bomb?

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