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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did crop circles originate from?
(a) England.
(b) America.
(c) Canada.
(d) France.

2. What did Travis Walton's mother say when her son was hit by alien lightning and taken into space?
(a) 'You've got to be kidding me.'
(b) 'He's not in space, he's living in my basement.'
(c) 'Get off my lawn or I'll shoot you.'
(d) 'Well, that's the way these things happen.'

3. How many of the world's scientists work at least part time for the military?
(a) Approximately a third.
(b) Roughly half.
(c) Practically none.
(d) Almost all.

4. Around what time did the attitude of the Church change towards visions?
(a) Around the end of the seventeenth century.
(b) The church's attitude towards visions has never changed.
(c) In the approximate middle of the fourteenth century.
(d) Around the beginning of the fifteenth century.

5. What does Carl Sagan say Howard Blum does not understand?
(a) Secrecy culture.
(b) Patterns.
(c) His own obsession with UFOs.
(d) Basic science and physics.

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

7. What percentage of Americans are "scientifically illiterate?"
(a) 88%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 42%.
(d) 95%.

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

9. Essentially, what are all UFO cases?
(a) Proof of extraterrestrial life.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Anecdotes.
(d) Insane.

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

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

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

13. Where is Paul Ingram, a man who was hypnotized and falsely recalled abusing his daughter, at the time of writing?
(a) On a permanent fundamentalist retreat.
(b) Free after having the charges dropped.
(c) In a psychiatric ward.
(d) In prison.

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

15. What tone does Einstein use in his paper on Special Relativity?
(a) Grandiose.
(b) Florid.
(c) Authoritative.
(d) Restrained.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Francisca la Brava punished for falsely claiming to have visions?

2. Whose portrait can be seen on the Uranian moon Ariel?

3. How many Americans believe in reincarnation?

4. What did the Count of St. Germain claim to be?

5. 'It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on ____________________.'

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