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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the book by Robert Lindner, how many minutes are in the hour?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) One hundred.

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

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

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

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

6. What does every generation worry about?
(a) Productivity standards.
(b) Educational standards.
(c) Gold standards.
(d) Moral standards.

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

8. What is the contrail of Aurora said to look like?
(a) Pies on an axis.
(b) Donuts on a rope.
(c) Pizza slices on acid.
(d) Flying saucers.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does the driver believe in?
(a) Channeling.
(b) All of the below.
(c) Aliens.
(d) Atlantis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is at the core of the Earth?

2. Which branch of science cannot foretell the future?

3. What do humans crave?

4. What type of tone was missed by the video cassette reviewer?

5. What year's World Fair introduced Carl Sagan to science?

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