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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of Americans are "scientifically illiterate?"
(a) 88%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 95%.
(d) 42%.

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

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

4. What year's World Fair introduced Carl Sagan to science?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1941.

5. What was Silas Newton's alien gear made of?
(a) An unknown material.
(b) Kitchen-pot aluminum.
(c) Elerium 115.
(d) Spacecraft-grade titanium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the 'great commandments of science?'

2. What tabloid carried headlines about Martian civilizations?

3. What, more than likely, was the real craft that crashed in Roswell?

4. What drug was Antonin Artaud using when he saw shapes in the scenery around him?

5. What does each field of science have?

(see the answer key)

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