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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In a year, how many school days are there in Japan compared to the 180 of the United States?
(a) 230.
(b) 243.
(c) 301.
(d) 365.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. How is the name 'Spee' pronounced?
(a) Phee.
(b) Su-peh.
(c) Spea.
(d) Shpay.

12. What other use for nuclear weapons was suggested by Edward Teller?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Home heating.
(c) Construction.
(d) Fireworks displays.

13. What hunting people lives in the Kalahari desert?
(a) The !Kung San.
(b) The Kung! San.
(c) The Kung San!
(d) The Kung San?

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was the 1939 Wold Fair held?

2. What can diminish a child's ability to understand and learn?

3. What do kids have an irresistible urge to do?

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

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

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