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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the driver become sad?
(a) Carl dismisses an important part of the driver's inner life.
(b) The driver's parents have just died.
(c) Carl is not the person the driver thought he was.
(d) The driver does not become sad.

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

3. What did the Roper poll not ask?
(a) Whether or not the respondents have a history of mental illness.
(b) What they thought the purpose of the abductions is.
(c) Why the respondents believe in aliens.
(d) Whether or not the respondents had actually been abducted.

4. Where on Mars is the 'face' located?
(a) Iani Chaos.
(b) Planum Australe.
(c) Tharsis.
(d) Cydonia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose portrait can be seen on the Uranian moon Ariel?

2. Who is the father of medicine?

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

4. 'Those in power ... have a vested interest in discouraging _____________.'

5. What phrase was coined when Carl Sagan was in high school?

(see the answer key)

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