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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 'Spirit' comes from the Latin word for what?
(a) Acquire.
(b) Breathe.
(c) Run.
(d) Create.

2. What does Malleus Maleficarum mean?
(a) Killer of Witches.
(b) Hammer of Witches.
(c) Hunting for Witches.
(d) Witches and Warlocks.

3. What is the new name for Constantinople?
(a) Istanbul.
(b) Ankara.
(c) Rome.
(d) Damascus.

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

5. Why does the driver become sad?
(a) The driver does not become sad.
(b) Carl dismisses an important part of the driver's inner life.
(c) The driver's parents have just died.
(d) Carl is not the person the driver thought he was.

6. What tabloid carried headlines about Martian civilizations?
(a) National Enquirer.
(b) News Today.
(c) Weekly World News.
(d) The Sun.

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

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

9. Ronald Reagan confused reality with the plot from which movie?
(a) The Dirty Dozen.
(b) Saving Private Ryan.
(c) A Bridge Too Far.
(d) A Wing and a Prayer.

10. According to popular myth, what do Satanists do with babies?
(a) Sacrifice them.
(b) Give them to aliens.
(c) Raise them to be Satanists.
(d) Eat them.

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

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

13. What did King James refer to as the 'devil's weed?'
(a) Crabgrass.
(b) Coca.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Tobacco.

14. 'No Satan, ___________.'
(a) No God.
(b) No worries.
(c) No way.
(d) No problem.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote On the Distinction Between True and False Visions?

2. What is the code-name for the documents given to Jaime Shandera?

3. What do psychic surgeons use to simulate their surgery?

4. Who wrote A Candle in the Dark?

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

(see the answer keys)

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