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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are scientists generally portrayed on television?
(a) Mad scientists.
(b) Insensitive to the feelings of others.
(c) All of the above.
(d) Morally crippled.

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

3. What does the Bible condone?
(a) Heresy.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Witchcraft.
(d) Murder.

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

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

6. What can be found at the source of a cholera epidemic?
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Open sewers.
(c) Poor refrigeration.
(d) Rats.

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

8. In what year was the Alien and Sedition Act created?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1812.
(d) 2002.

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

10. What causes magnetism?
(a) Magentic fluid.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Maxwell's demon.
(d) Mesmerism.

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

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

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

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

15. What nicknames did Rep. J. Parnell Thomas give to Dr. Edward U. Condon?
(a) Dr. Condom.
(b) The weakest link.
(c) The missing link.
(d) All of the below.

Short Answer Questions

1. 'It is certainly true that all beliefs and myths are worthy of a ___________________.'

2. What nation is the best-entertained nation on Earth?

3. How could James Clerk Maxwell be described as?

4. What was Darwin just about to do when he set sail on the H.M.S. Beagle?

5. What is CSICOP?

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