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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Carlos and his manager do to the host of the Australian Today Show?
(a) All of the below.
(b) Leave the set of his show.
(c) Throw water at him.
(d) Put a curse on him.

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

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

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

5. Who was Stalin's rival?
(a) Fritz Platten.
(b) Vladimir Lenin.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Leon Trotsky.

6. Where did the experimental nature of science come from?
(a) India.
(b) China.
(c) The Aztecs.
(d) Ancient Greece.

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

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

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

10. 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) Nearly everyone.
(c) No more than half.
(d) Approximately two quarters.

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

12. What percentage of students in the U.S. dislike school?
(a) 50%.
(b) 22%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 8%.

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

14. When was Miles Phillips brought before the Spanish Inquisition?
(a) 1574.
(b) 1754.
(c) 1745.
(d) 1447.

15. What are Maxwell's calculations written in?
(a) Latin.
(b) Algebraic calculus.
(c) Vector calculus.
(d) Multivariable calculus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nation exploded the first hydrogen bomb?

2. Who was the scientific director of the Manhattan project?

3. Who do not know enough not to ask important questions?

4. What does the Bible condone?

5. What phrase does Robert Anton Wilson use to describe skeptics?

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