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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What tone does Einstein use in his paper on Special Relativity?
(a) Authoritative.
(b) Florid.
(c) Restrained.
(d) Grandiose.

3. What is the only field where things are known for certain?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) Mathematics.

4. What does Carl Sagan work mostly with?
(a) Weather.
(b) Planets.
(c) Economics.
(d) Physics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do religions use to validate themselves?

2. Humans are more closely related to chimpanzees than _____________________.

3. What is at the core of the Earth?

4. 'It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on ____________________.'

5. What did the Roper poll not ask?

(see the answer key)

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