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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Carl Sagan a member of?
(a) The U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
(b) The U.S. Navy Astronomers Association.
(c) The U.S. Government Skeptics Council.
(d) The U.S. Army UFO Investigation Team.

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

4. When did a flying saucer allegedly crash in Roswell, New Mexico?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1919.

5. What happened to those who criticized witch-burning?
(a) They were given a special forum.
(b) They were imprisoned.
(c) They were burned.
(d) They were exiled.

6. According to P.T. Barnum, what is born every minute?
(a) Five hundred chickens.
(b) A circus freak.
(c) A sucker.
(d) A Republican.

7. What belief does Carl Sagan think is absurd?
(a) That we are not alone in the Universe.
(b) That humans are the only intelligent form of life in the Universe.
(c) That the Universe is not infinite.
(d) That God does not exist.

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

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

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

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

12. What type of rewards are there in becoming an 'alien abudctee?'
(a) Financial rewards.
(b) Psychic rewards.
(c) All of the below.
(d) Fame and attention.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many schizophrenics are there on Earth?

2. What did John Glenn report seeing outside his spacecraft?

3. What does Malleus Maleficarum mean?

4. What was so honest about George Adamski?

5. What is Congress dissolving as Carl writes this book?

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