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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What were Sagan's last words to his father?
(a) Don't die.
(b) Take care.
(c) Sleep.
(d) I love you.
2. According to P.T. Barnum, what is born every minute?
(a) Five hundred chickens.
(b) A circus freak.
(c) A sucker.
(d) A Republican.
3. Essentially, what are all UFO cases?
(a) Insane.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Proof of extraterrestrial life.
(d) Anecdotes.
4. What is spoofing?
(a) A form of comedy.
(b) Dangerous stunt piloting.
(c) Testing enemy air defenses.
(d) Copycat UFO hoaxes.
5. What type of tone was missed by the video cassette reviewer?
(a) Satirical.
(b) Banal.
(c) Ironical.
(d) Whimsical.
6. How many UFO reports have there been since 1947?
(a) Six hundred and twenty thousand.
(b) Approximately half a million.
(c) Over a million.
(d) Seventeen.
7. In a society that believes in ghosts, how are reports of ghost sighting received?
(a) Without the slightest hesitation.
(b) Without any investigation whatsoever.
(c) With approval, even prestige.
(d) With disdain, and some suspicion.
8. What does magic require from the audience?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Volunteers.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Ticket sales.
9. What did the Roper poll not ask?
(a) Why the respondents believe in aliens.
(b) Whether or not the respondents have a history of mental illness.
(c) What they thought the purpose of the abductions is.
(d) Whether or not the respondents had actually been abducted.
10. What, according to Carl Sagan, is a national obsession in Britain?
(a) Psychic surgery.
(b) Earth rays.
(c) The economy.
(d) Ghosts.
11. What does each field of science have?
(a) Its own complement of pseudeoscience.
(b) An unsolvable dilemma that leads to superstition.
(c) Supreme knowledge in its own area.
(d) Fans and well-wishers.
12. What is the most popular movie rental at the time of writing?
(a) When Harry Met Sally.
(b) Jurassic Park.
(c) Dumb and Dumber.
(d) Star Wars.
13. When did a flying saucer allegedly crash in Roswell, New Mexico?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1919.
14. Around what time did the attitude of the Church change towards visions?
(a) Around the beginning of the fifteenth century.
(b) The church's attitude towards visions has never changed.
(c) In the approximate middle of the fourteenth century.
(d) Around the end of the seventeenth century.
15. What does REM stand for?
(a) Restricted Effective Mass.
(b) Röntgen Equivalent Man.
(c) Rapid Eye Movement.
(d) Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does not sell well?
2. What does Carl Sagan work mostly with?
3. What did Carl see in a brooding storm cloud near Fiji?
4. What belief does Carl Sagan think is absurd?
5. How old is Ramtha?
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