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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of students in the U.S. dislike school?
(a) 8%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 22%.
(d) 100%.

2. In Sagan's analogy, what is living in the garage?
(a) A renegade alien.
(b) A fire-breathing dragon.
(c) Some type of Medusa.
(d) A horrible, slithering monster.

3. What university did John Mack attend?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

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

5. What belief does Carl Sagan think is absurd?
(a) That we are not alone in the Universe.
(b) That God does not exist.
(c) That the Universe is not infinite.
(d) That humans are the only intelligent form of life in the Universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sets limits on human ingenuity?

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

3. What is it impossible to tell?

4. What nicknames did Rep. J. Parnell Thomas give to Dr. Edward U. Condon?

5. What does Carl Sagan say Howard Blum does not understand?

(see the answer key)

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