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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the scientific director of the Manhattan project?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) J. Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Harry S. Truman.

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

3. What may have been the decisive element in the Allied victory in World War II?
(a) Radio.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Radar.
(d) Television.

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

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

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

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

8. What is there so such thing as?
(a) A stupid answer.
(b) A stupid person.
(c) A stupid question.
(d) A stupid idea.

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

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

11. What is 'soul-stuff' not made of?
(a) Mana.
(b) Ions.
(c) Matter.
(d) Energy.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did lacrosse originate from?

2. Who is Shirley MacLaine?

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

4. What does SDI stand for?

5. Who was Stalin's rival?

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