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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Blunders of Science - An Alternative Vision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the "proposed selective force of Evolution?"
(a) Natural selection.
(b) Punctuated equilibrium.
(c) DNA mutation.
(d) The whim of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

2. What do Snodgrass and Jaffari speculate is the reason the Flying Spaghetti Monster does not eradicate poverty, cancer, global warming, etc.?
(a) He is trying to make mankind turn back to His Noodly Goodness.
(b) He is sleeping.
(c) He is trying to rekindle the low-carb diet craze.
(d) He is trying to teach mankind a lesson.

3. In Longshanks' Evolutionary explanation of televisions, what is NOT included in his list of components?
(a) Remote controls.
(b) Spare television parts.
(c) DNA.
(d) Mud.

4. According to Henderson, what is the Buddhists' sacred text?
(a) The Holy Book of Buddhas.
(b) Rub Buddha's Belly.
(c) The Ramayana.
(d) The Bananapada.

5. In "An Alternative Viewpoint," where does Longshanks say Bobby Henderson purportedly sleep?
(a) In a crypt.
(b) In a pyramid.
(c) In a coffin.
(d) In a crib.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henderson say led to the Passenger Pigeon's extinction?

2. What is the "strange and often misunderstood force" that, according to Henderson, the Flying Spaghetti Monster controls with His Noodly Appendage?

3. What must be taught to "give young students' minds a broad foundation?"

4. What two epithets do Snodgrass and Jaffari use to describe who they try to appeal to?

5. What does Henderson use to "prove" empirical science's shortcomings?

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