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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was first observed on Mars in 1877?
(a) A face.
(b) Canals.
(c) Martians.
(d) Cities.
2. According to one letter writer, science has become _____________________.
(a) The 'way to know truth.'
(b) The 'New-Age-New-World-Order.'
(c) The 'judge, jury, and executioner.'
(d) The 'magic that works.'
3. What happened to those who criticized witch-burning?
(a) They were imprisoned.
(b) They were exiled.
(c) They were given a special forum.
(d) They were burned.
4. What does the NSA do?
(a) Catches drug dealers.
(b) Reads the world's mail.
(c) Sends satellites into space.
(d) Assassinates world leaders.
5. What does Carl Sagan say Howard Blum does not understand?
(a) Patterns.
(b) His own obsession with UFOs.
(c) Basic science and physics.
(d) Secrecy culture.
6. Whose portrait can be seen on the Uranian moon Ariel?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) Bugs Bunny.
(c) Leon Trotsky.
(d) Joseph Stalin.
7. What did the Roper poll not ask?
(a) What they thought the purpose of the abductions is.
(b) Whether or not the respondents had actually been abducted.
(c) Why the respondents believe in aliens.
(d) Whether or not the respondents have a history of mental illness.
8. What percentage of people has experienced a vivid hallucination?
(a) 30-40%.
(b) 5-9%.
(c) Approximately 50%.
(d) 10-25%.
9. What type of tone was missed by the video cassette reviewer?
(a) Satirical.
(b) Ironical.
(c) Whimsical.
(d) Banal.
10. Who were responsible for the original crop circles?
(a) Bower and Chorley.
(b) Hawkins and Arthur.
(c) Lundberg and Andrews.
(d) Ridley and Koestler.
11. What is Congress dissolving as Carl writes this book?
(a) The Department of Agriculture.
(b) The Office of Technology Assessment.
(c) The Council for Scientific Awareness.
(d) The National Board of Science.
12. In Sagan's analogy, what is living in the garage?
(a) A renegade alien.
(b) A fire-breathing dragon.
(c) Some type of Medusa.
(d) A horrible, slithering monster.
13. In the book by Robert Lindner, how many minutes are in the hour?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Twenty-two.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Sixty.
14. When was Sputnik 1 launched?
(a) October 4, 1977.
(b) October 4, 1957.
(c) October 4, 1947.
(d) October 4, 1967.
15. What does REM stand for?
(a) Röntgen Equivalent Man.
(b) Restricted Effective Mass.
(c) Rapid Eye Movement.
(d) Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
Short Answer Questions
1. 'No Satan, ___________.'
2. What is the only field where things are known for certain?
3. What was Silas Newton's alien gear made of?
4. What is the contrail of Aurora said to look like?
5. What does LGM stand for?
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