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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose portrait can be seen on the Uranian moon Ariel?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) Leon Trotsky.
(c) Bugs Bunny.
(d) Joseph Stalin.

2. What was first observed on Mars in 1877?
(a) Martians.
(b) A face.
(c) Cities.
(d) Canals.

3. Where is Paul Ingram, a man who was hypnotized and falsely recalled abusing his daughter, at the time of writing?
(a) In prison.
(b) Free after having the charges dropped.
(c) On a permanent fundamentalist retreat.
(d) In a psychiatric ward.

4. What tabloid carried headlines about Martian civilizations?
(a) Weekly World News.
(b) News Today.
(c) The Sun.
(d) National Enquirer.

5. What does each field of science have?
(a) Fans and well-wishers.
(b) Its own complement of pseudeoscience.
(c) Supreme knowledge in its own area.
(d) An unsolvable dilemma that leads to superstition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Darwin just about to do when he set sail on the H.M.S. Beagle?

2. What does Carl see every time he looks at the moon?

3. How old is Ramtha?

4. What nicknames did Rep. J. Parnell Thomas give to Dr. Edward U. Condon?

5. What does Carl Sagan work mostly with?

(see the answer key)

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