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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was Darwin just about to do when he set sail on the H.M.S. Beagle?
(a) Join the Socialist party in England.
(b) Become the president of an atheist organization.
(c) Become a minister.
(d) Embark on a speaking tour against religion.

4. What do psychic surgeons use to simulate their surgery?
(a) Psychic surgery is not simulated.
(b) Paid actors and special effects.
(c) A lot of confusing light.
(d) Chicken liver or goat heart.

5. 'It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on ____________________.'
(a) Linear chaotic elements.
(b) Assorted dimensional rifts.
(c) Various interplanetary travels.
(d) Random cosmic violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. 'No Satan, ___________.'

2. What were Sagan's last words to his father?

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

4. Whose portrait can be seen on the Uranian moon Ariel?

5. What advantage does science have over history?

(see the answer key)

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