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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one of the 'great commandments of science?'
(a) 'Authority is where funding comes from.'
(b) 'Trust authority to know best.'
(c) 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'
(d) 'Use science to destroy authority.'

3. What do religions use to validate themselves?
(a) Prophecy.
(b) Mythology.
(c) Hysteria.
(d) Witch-burning.

4. What must advertisers know?
(a) Everything about their product.
(b) Their audience.
(c) Human nature.
(d) How to lie.

5. What does Carl see every time he looks at the moon?
(a) A face.
(b) Possibility.
(c) Cold, lifeless rock.
(d) Our future home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does each field of science have?

2. What was first observed on Mars in 1877?

3. What is the contrail of Aurora said to look like?

4. What did Travis Walton's mother say when her son was hit by alien lightning and taken into space?

5. What did John Glenn report seeing outside his spacecraft?

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