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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to P.T. Barnum, what is born every minute?
(a) A circus freak.
(b) Five hundred chickens.
(c) A Republican.
(d) A sucker.

2. What were Sagan's last words to his father?
(a) I love you.
(b) Don't die.
(c) Take care.
(d) Sleep.

3. What was Carl Sagan a member of?
(a) The U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
(b) The U.S. Government Skeptics Council.
(c) The U.S. Navy Astronomers Association.
(d) The U.S. Army UFO Investigation Team.

4. What type of tone was missed by the video cassette reviewer?
(a) Whimsical.
(b) Satirical.
(c) Ironical.
(d) Banal.

5. What year's World Fair introduced Carl Sagan to science?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1939.

Short Answer Questions

1. What university did John Mack attend?

2. What did the Roper poll not ask?

3. What is Congress dissolving as Carl writes this book?

4. What did Carl see in a brooding storm cloud near Fiji?

5. What percentage of American women were sexually abused during childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does Sagan describe about the 1992 Roper poll?

2. What can we see through the example of Newtonian Physics?

3. Describe the history of demons.

4. What does Carl Sagan say about human nature and patterns?

5. What modern problems do we need science to help us with? Can science really solve these problems?

6. What is Sagan's view on grief, death, and the afterlife?

7. What is the correlation between UFO sightings and the Cold War?

8. What is Mr. Buckley's problem with science?

9. Why does Sagan believe that there might actually have been secret investigative teams to look into reports of UFOs?

10. According to J.B.S. Haldane, what is the relationship between eternity and reincarnation?

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