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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does ACLU stand for?
(a) American Civil Liberties Union.
(b) After Class Let's Unite.
(c) American Coalition of Liberal Unity.
(d) Annotated Corporate Loss Unit.

2. What is taboo in all societies?
(a) Incest.
(b) Abandoning the elderly.
(c) Eating pork.
(d) Spiritualism.

3. What can diminish a child's ability to understand and learn?
(a) Physical abuse.
(b) Parental drug use.
(c) Poor nutrition.
(d) Television.

4. What do kids have an irresistible urge to do?
(a) Taste.
(b) Learn.
(c) Smell.
(d) Touch.

5. Who was Frederick Bailey?
(a) A murderer.
(b) A landowner.
(c) A slave.
(d) A police officer.

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Join the Socialist party in England.
(c) Become a minister.
(d) Embark on a speaking tour against religion.

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

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

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

14. What is it impossible to tell?
(a) The whole truth and nothing but the truth.
(b) The difference between identical twins.
(c) The time of day on Earth while standing on the moon.
(d) Tall tales.

15. According to Benjamin Franklin, what does every age have?
(a) More wisdom than the last.
(b) A peculiar folly.
(c) A special something.
(d) A tremendous time of need.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be found at the source of a cholera epidemic?

2. What is there so such thing as?

3. Where did lacrosse originate from?

4. According to the Nation of Islam, who created white people?

5. How are scientists generally portrayed on television?

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