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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does REM stand for?
(a) Restricted Effective Mass.
(b) Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
(c) Rapid Eye Movement.
(d) Röntgen Equivalent Man.

2. What was Darwin just about to do when he set sail on the H.M.S. Beagle?
(a) Embark on a speaking tour against religion.
(b) Become the president of an atheist organization.
(c) Become a minister.
(d) Join the Socialist party in England.

3. What, more than likely, was the real craft that crashed in Roswell?
(a) A spy balloon.
(b) A spy aircraft.
(c) A Russian aircraft.
(d) A spy satellite.

4. What is 'soul-stuff' not made of?
(a) Energy.
(b) Mana.
(c) Ions.
(d) Matter.

5. What did Travis Walton's mother say when her son was hit by alien lightning and taken into space?
(a) 'You've got to be kidding me.'
(b) 'He's not in space, he's living in my basement.'
(c) 'Well, that's the way these things happen.'
(d) 'Get off my lawn or I'll shoot you.'

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Congress dissolving as Carl writes this book?

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

3. 'Spirit' comes from the Latin word for what?

4. What does Paul the Apostle counsel us to do?

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

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