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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is the father of medicine?
(a) Hippocrates.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

5. What must advertisers know?
(a) How to lie.
(b) Their audience.
(c) Human nature.
(d) Everything about their product.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carl see in a brooding storm cloud near Fiji?

2. Which branch of science cannot foretell the future?

3. What was Silas Newton's alien gear made of?

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

5. At the center of which galaxy are millions of voices reportedly singing 'Glory, glory, glory to the Lord on high?'

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