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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did John Glenn report seeing outside his spacecraft?
(a) Aliens.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) Angels.

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

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

5. What did Carl see in a brooding storm cloud near Fiji?
(a) A terrifying monster.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) A brooding storm.
(d) An apocalyptic vision.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carl Sagan say Howard Blum does not understand?

2. What is spoofing?

3. Which branch of science cannot foretell the future?

4. What was so honest about George Adamski?

5. What word means 'knowledge' in Greek?

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