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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drug was Antonin Artaud using when he saw shapes in the scenery around him?
(a) Peyote.
(b) LSD.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Cocaine.

2. What does REM stand for?
(a) Rapid Eye Movement.
(b) Röntgen Equivalent Man.
(c) Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
(d) Restricted Effective Mass.

3. What did Travis Walton's mother say when her son was hit by alien lightning and taken into space?
(a) 'You've got to be kidding me.'
(b) 'He's not in space, he's living in my basement.'
(c) 'Get off my lawn or I'll shoot you.'
(d) 'Well, that's the way these things happen.'

4. What does Carl Sagan say Howard Blum does not understand?
(a) His own obsession with UFOs.
(b) Secrecy culture.
(c) Patterns.
(d) Basic science and physics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carl see in a brooding storm cloud near Fiji?

2. What happened to those who criticized witch-burning?

3. Which branch of science cannot foretell the future?

4. What year's World Fair introduced Carl Sagan to science?

5. How many UFO reports have there been since 1947?

(see the answer key)

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