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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Carl see in a brooding storm cloud near Fiji?
(a) A terrifying monster.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) A brooding storm.
(d) An apocalyptic vision.

3. According to one letter writer, science has become _____________________.
(a) The 'magic that works.'
(b) The 'way to know truth.'
(c) The 'New-Age-New-World-Order.'
(d) The 'judge, jury, and executioner.'

4. 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) 'Well, that's the way these things happen.'
(c) 'He's not in space, he's living in my basement.'
(d) 'Get off my lawn or I'll shoot you.'

5. Whose portrait can be seen on the Uranian moon Ariel?
(a) Leon Trotsky.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) Bugs Bunny.
(d) Joseph Stalin.

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

7. What were Sagan's last words to his father?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Take care.
(c) Don't die.
(d) I love you.

8. When was Sputnik 1 launched?
(a) October 4, 1967.
(b) October 4, 1977.
(c) October 4, 1947.
(d) October 4, 1957.

9. How many Americans believe in reincarnation?
(a) 10%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 13%.
(d) 50%.

10. What, more than likely, was the real craft that crashed in Roswell?
(a) A spy balloon.
(b) A spy aircraft.
(c) A Russian aircraft.
(d) A spy satellite.

11. What did King James refer to as the 'devil's weed?'
(a) Crabgrass.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Coca.

12. When was the motion picture, Invaders from Mars, released?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1951.

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

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

15. What is the driver's name?
(a) Peter B. Rabbit.
(b) David R. Peterson.
(c) James T. Kirk.
(d) William F. Buckley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which religion denies germ theory?

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

3. Where did crop circles originate from?

4. What do religions use to validate themselves?

5. Who wrote On the Distinction Between True and False Visions?

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