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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year's World Fair introduced Carl Sagan to science?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1941.

2. How many Americans believe in reincarnation?
(a) 13%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 50%.

3. In a society that believes in ghosts, how are reports of ghost sighting received?
(a) Without any investigation whatsoever.
(b) Without the slightest hesitation.
(c) With disdain, and some suspicion.
(d) With approval, even prestige.

4. Humans are more closely related to chimpanzees than _____________________.
(a) Spiders are to scorpions.
(b) Dolphins are to whales.
(c) Rats are to mice.
(d) Dogs are to wolves.

5. What does Carl Sagan work mostly with?
(a) Planets.
(b) Physics.
(c) Economics.
(d) Weather.

6. Which branch of science cannot foretell the future?
(a) Ecology.
(b) Scientology.
(c) Paleontology.
(d) Astrology.

7. What percentage of people has experienced a vivid hallucination?
(a) 10-25%.
(b) Approximately 50%.
(c) 5-9%.
(d) 30-40%.

8. 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.

9. Essentially, what are all UFO cases?
(a) Proof of extraterrestrial life.
(b) Insane.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Anecdotes.

10. Who wrote A Candle in the Dark?
(a) John Salem.
(b) Thomas Ady.
(c) George Burroughs.
(d) Elton John.

11. What does each field of science have?
(a) Fans and well-wishers.
(b) An unsolvable dilemma that leads to superstition.
(c) Supreme knowledge in its own area.
(d) Its own complement of pseudeoscience.

12. According to Hans Hörbiger, what is the Milky Way made of?
(a) Snowballs.
(b) Milk.
(c) Arayans.
(d) Soft cheese.

13. Claims that cannot be tested are _______________.
(a) Almost certainly true.
(b) Worthless.
(c) Intruiging.
(d) Rock solid.

14. Which of the following was not a codename for a military balloon?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Mogul.
(c) Skyhook.
(d) Genetrix.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a 1992 Roper poll, what percentage of Americans has been abducted by aliens?

2. Around what time did the attitude of the Church change towards visions?

3. How was the article received by the media?

4. What does the NSA do?

5. What is spoofing?

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