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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do religions use to validate themselves?
(a) Prophecy.
(b) Witch-burning.
(c) Hysteria.
(d) Mythology.

2. What word means 'knowledge' in Greek?
(a) Demon.
(b) Plato.
(c) Angel.
(d) Alien.

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

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

5. What does not sell well?
(a) Skepticism.
(b) Mysticism.
(c) Superstition.
(d) Propaganda.

6. What is the code-name for the documents given to Jaime Shandera?
(a) RF-10-2.
(b) NO-09.
(c) MJ-12.
(d) MI-5.

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

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

9. What is the title of this chapter?
(a) The Dragon in My Garage.
(b) When Scientists Know Sin.
(c) The City of Grief.
(d) The Fine Art of Baloney Detection.

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

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

12. How old is Ramtha?
(a) Untold centuries.
(b) Ramtha is ageless.
(c) 552,050 years.
(d) 35,000 years.

13. Who were responsible for the original crop circles?
(a) Lundberg and Andrews.
(b) Hawkins and Arthur.
(c) Bower and Chorley.
(d) Ridley and Koestler.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the motion picture, Invaders from Mars, released?

2. At the center of which galaxy are millions of voices reportedly singing 'Glory, glory, glory to the Lord on high?'

3. What is the only field where things are known for certain?

4. Who wrote A Candle in the Dark?

5. How was the article received by the media?

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