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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the fortune-teller say to a client in Sagan's favorite cartoon?
(a) 'You have nice hands.'
(b) 'You will die soon.'
(c) 'You are very gullible.'
(d) 'You have been abducted by aliens.'

2. When did a flying saucer allegedly crash in Roswell, New Mexico?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1947.

3. What do kids have an irresistible urge to do?
(a) Touch.
(b) Learn.
(c) Smell.
(d) Taste.

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

5. What did King James refer to as the 'devil's weed?'
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Crabgrass.
(c) Coca.
(d) Marijuana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did U.S. students average on a global algebra test?

2. Where is Carlos to appear?

3. What percentage of American women were sexually abused during childhood?

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

5. What does each field of science have?

(see the answer key)

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