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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term used for basketball players who are playing well?
(a) Ice cold.
(b) On fire.
(c) Burning up.
(d) Hot hand.

2. What was Darwin just about to do when he set sail on the H.M.S. Beagle?
(a) Become a minister.
(b) Become the president of an atheist organization.
(c) Join the Socialist party in England.
(d) Embark on a speaking tour against religion.

3. What disease does quinine help relieve the symptoms of?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Influenza.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Dengue fever.

4. Where is Carlos to appear?
(a) England.
(b) Australia.
(c) America.
(d) Africa.

5. What was Edward Teller an advocate of?
(a) Nazi Germany.
(b) Nuclear disarmament.
(c) Racist policies.
(d) The Super.

6. According to the Nation of Islam, who created white people?
(a) Allah.
(b) A mad scientist.
(c) Ares.
(d) Asians.

7. What is CSICOP?
(a) A support organization for wounded cops.
(b) A group of UFO enthusiasts.
(c) A skeptic's organization.
(d) A secret government program to create a robot police officer.

8. Who is Shirley MacLaine?
(a) A New Age guru and actress.
(b) A skeptic and actress.
(c) A film producer and actress.
(d) A scientist and actress.

9. What piece of technology existed in 1860?
(a) The telegraph.
(b) The internal combustion engine.
(c) The radio.
(d) The television.

10. What phrase does Robert Anton Wilson use to describe skeptics?
(a) The 'New Inquisiton.'
(b) The 'Unfaithful Few.'
(c) The 'Bold Aggressors.'
(d) The 'Young and the Restless.'

11. In 1993, how many of the people of China, as in America, knew the Earth went around the sun once a year?
(a) No more than half.
(b) Approximately two quarters.
(c) Nearly everyone.
(d) No less than a third.

12. What do we do when we discourage children from science?
(a) Dishearten them.
(b) Disenfranchise them.
(c) Destroy them.
(d) Disable them.

13. What nation is the best-entertained nation on Earth?
(a) Japan.
(b) England.
(c) The United States.
(d) France.

14. What nation exploded the first hydrogen bomb?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) France.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) The United States of America.

15. What children's game is similar to the way we pass information without reading?
(a) Hide-and-seek.
(b) Hopscotch.
(c) Monopoly.
(d) Telephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes magnetism?

2. What did the United States have in its early years?

3. Where did the experimental nature of science come from?

4. What nicknames did Rep. J. Parnell Thomas give to Dr. Edward U. Condon?

5. What best defines 'Newton's Sleep?'

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