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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nation exploded the first hydrogen bomb?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) The Soviet Union.
(c) The United States of America.
(d) France.

2. In 1993, how many of the people of China, as in America, knew the Earth went around the sun once a year?
(a) Approximately two quarters.
(b) Nearly everyone.
(c) No less than a third.
(d) No more than half.

3. What does SDI stand for?
(a) Solar Density Inhibitor.
(b) Strategic Defense Initiative.
(c) Star Destroyer Interdictor.
(d) Stealth Death Initiator.

4. What do psychic surgeons use to simulate their surgery?
(a) Paid actors and special effects.
(b) Chicken liver or goat heart.
(c) A lot of confusing light.
(d) Psychic surgery is not simulated.

5. 'It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on ____________________.'
(a) Assorted dimensional rifts.
(b) Linear chaotic elements.
(c) Random cosmic violence.
(d) Various interplanetary travels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of American women were sexually abused during childhood?

2. What did the Roper poll not ask?

3. What does the driver believe in?

4. Ronald Reagan confused reality with the plot from which movie?

5. What is at the core of the Earth?

(see the answer key)

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