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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 key to the success of science?
(a) It has built-in error correction.
(b) It is popular with the masses.
(c) It is easy to teach and understand.
(d) It has wields power through atomic weapons.

2. What, according to Carl Sagan, is a national obsession in Britain?
(a) The economy.
(b) Psychic surgery.
(c) Earth rays.
(d) Ghosts.

3. Who wrote A Candle in the Dark?
(a) Elton John.
(b) George Burroughs.
(c) John Salem.
(d) Thomas Ady.

4. When was Sputnik 1 launched?
(a) October 4, 1947.
(b) October 4, 1957.
(c) October 4, 1967.
(d) October 4, 1977.

5. What was first observed on Mars in 1877?
(a) Martians.
(b) Canals.
(c) A face.
(d) Cities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is at the core of the Earth?

2. Why does the driver become sad?

3. How many of the world's scientists work at least part time for the military?

4. What tone does Einstein use in his paper on Special Relativity?

5. Which religion denies germ theory?

(see the answer key)

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