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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a single ratings point worth in prime time advertising dollars?
(a) Practically nothing.
(b) Hundreds of millions.
(c) Millions.
(d) Tens of thousands.

2. What are the chances of being cured at Lourdes?
(a) One in ten.
(b) One in a hundred.
(c) One in a million.
(d) One in a thousand.

3. According to one critic, what is James Randi obsessed with?
(a) Money.
(b) Reality.
(c) Magic.
(d) Exposing fruad.

4. What does SDI stand for?
(a) Star Destroyer Interdictor.
(b) Solar Density Inhibitor.
(c) Stealth Death Initiator.
(d) Strategic Defense Initiative.

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

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

7. What does Paul the Apostle counsel us to do?
(a) 'Be credulous unto miracles.'
(b) 'Have faith.'
(c) 'Question not the word of God.'
(d) 'Prove all things.'

8. What sport does Carl Sagan like?
(a) Hockey.
(b) Lacrosse.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Football.

9. Who sets limits on human ingenuity?
(a) Governments.
(b) Nature.
(c) Scientists.
(d) God.

10. What advantage does science have over history?
(a) Societal importance.
(b) Experimentation.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) A lack of bias.

11. What did U.S. students average on a global algebra test?
(a) 99%.
(b) 43%.
(c) 78%.
(d) 4%.

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

13. Why has quantum mechanics not been popularized?
(a) It is very difficult for ordinary people to understand.
(b) It is excruciatingly boring.
(c) Quantum mechanics has been popularized, and it is very popular.
(d) Its implications are unsettling.

14. What did George Awad create?
(a) A charitable foundation to foster interest in science.
(b) A gigantic representation of DNA.
(c) A massive screen ten stories high that wraps around you.
(d) A detailed model of the universe.

15. What did the United States have in its early years?
(a) A sprawling entertainment industry.
(b) One of the highest literacy rates in the world.
(c) A serious problem with crop circles.
(d) The largest economy on the planet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What disease does quinine help relieve the symptoms of?

3. What is CSICOP?

4. Where did lacrosse originate from?

5. According to Alan Cromer, why is science difficult?

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