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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carl Sagan try not to think with?
(a) His gut.
(b) His brain.
(c) His heart.
(d) His third eye.

2. What country is Nicholas Spanos from?
(a) America.
(b) Canada.
(c) Spain.
(d) England.

3. Who wrote On the Distinction Between True and False Visions?
(a) Jean Petit.
(b) Joan of Arc.
(c) Jean Gerson.
(d) Jean Chrétien.

4. What percentage of Americans are "scientifically illiterate?"
(a) 42%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 95%.
(d) 88%.

5. What do humans crave?
(a) Absolute certainty.
(b) Credit.
(c) Righteousness.
(d) Destruction.

6. What group 'powerfully influenced' Christian philosophy?
(a) The students of Socrates.
(b) Neo-Platonists.
(c) Aristoteliens.
(d) Platonists.

7. What does Carl see every time he looks at the moon?
(a) Our future home.
(b) Possibility.
(c) A face.
(d) Cold, lifeless rock.

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

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

10. At the center of which galaxy are millions of voices reportedly singing 'Glory, glory, glory to the Lord on high?'
(a) IC 10.
(b) NGC 4395.
(c) M51.
(d) Draco Dwarf.

11. What, according to Carl Sagan, is a national obsession in Britain?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Earth rays.
(c) Psychic surgery.
(d) The economy.

12. What percentage of American women were sexually abused during childhood?
(a) One in eight.
(b) One in ten.
(c) One in twenty.
(d) One in four.

13. What type of tone was missed by the video cassette reviewer?
(a) Ironical.
(b) Whimsical.
(c) Satirical.
(d) Banal.

14. What phrase was coined when Carl Sagan was in high school?
(a) 'Death ray.'
(b) 'UFO.'
(c) 'Alien abduction.'
(d) 'Flying saucer.'

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Sagan's last words to his father?

2. What was Silas Newton's alien gear made of?

3. Witches were burned because the 'Church abhors ____________.'

4. What drug was Antonin Artaud using when he saw shapes in the scenery around him?

5. What does REM stand for?

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