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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of American women were sexually abused during childhood?
(a) One in eight.
(b) One in twenty.
(c) One in ten.
(d) One in four.

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

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

4. Ronald Reagan confused reality with the plot from which movie?
(a) A Wing and a Prayer.
(b) Saving Private Ryan.
(c) A Bridge Too Far.
(d) The Dirty Dozen.

5. What is spoofing?
(a) Testing enemy air defenses.
(b) Dangerous stunt piloting.
(c) A form of comedy.
(d) Copycat UFO hoaxes.

6. What does magic require from the audience?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Ticket sales.
(d) Volunteers.

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

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

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

10. How many people suffer kidney failure from the use of painkillers?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 50.
(c) 500.
(d) 50,000.

11. Where on Mars is the 'face' located?
(a) Planum Australe.
(b) Tharsis.
(c) Cydonia.
(d) Iani Chaos.

12. What does not sell well?
(a) Superstition.
(b) Skepticism.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Propaganda.

13. What does the NSA do?
(a) Reads the world's mail.
(b) Catches drug dealers.
(c) Sends satellites into space.
(d) Assassinates world leaders.

14. In a society that believes in ghosts, how are reports of ghost sighting received?
(a) Without any investigation whatsoever.
(b) Without the slightest hesitation.
(c) With disdain, and some suspicion.
(d) With approval, even prestige.

15. What is one of the 'great commandments of science?'
(a) 'Trust authority to know best.'
(b) 'Use science to destroy authority.'
(c) 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'
(d) 'Authority is where funding comes from.'

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the new name for Constantinople?

3. What must advertisers know?

4. What phrase was coined when Carl Sagan was in high school?

5. What does every generation worry about?

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