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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. Who wrote A Candle in the Dark?
(a) Elton John.
(b) Thomas Ady.
(c) George Burroughs.
(d) John Salem.

2. What percentage of American women were sexually abused during childhood?
(a) One in eight.
(b) One in four.
(c) One in twenty.
(d) One in ten.

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

4. What, according to Carl Sagan, is a national obsession in Britain?
(a) The economy.
(b) Psychic surgery.
(c) Earth rays.
(d) Ghosts.

5. At the center of which galaxy are millions of voices reportedly singing 'Glory, glory, glory to the Lord on high?'
(a) NGC 4395.
(b) IC 10.
(c) M51.
(d) Draco Dwarf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most popular movie rental at the time of writing?

2. Which religion denies germ theory?

3. Around what time did the attitude of the Church change towards visions?

4. What does not sell well?

5. What percentage of Americans are "scientifically illiterate?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the common theme in the advertisements in UFO magazines?

2. What is Carl Sagan afraid of? Has it already happened?

3. What is Sagan's disagreement with his friend John Mack? Why does John believe what he does?

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

5. How was Kenneth Arnold misquoted?

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

7. What is the story of Paul Ingram?

8. What explanation does Sagan give for massive blackouts on released NSA documents?

9. What is the connection between science and pseudoscience?

10. Describe the typical alien abduction scenario.

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