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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were responsible for the original crop circles?
(a) Ridley and Koestler.
(b) Bower and Chorley.
(c) Lundberg and Andrews.
(d) Hawkins and Arthur.

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

3. What drug was Antonin Artaud using when he saw shapes in the scenery around him?
(a) LSD.
(b) Peyote.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Marijuana.

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

5. What is Congress dissolving as Carl writes this book?
(a) The Department of Agriculture.
(b) The National Board of Science.
(c) The Office of Technology Assessment.
(d) The Council for Scientific Awareness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the father of medicine?

2. What is Carl Sagan in love with?

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

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

5. What percentage of people has experienced a vivid hallucination?

(see the answer key)

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