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

2. According to popular myth, what do Satanists do with babies?
(a) Eat them.
(b) Sacrifice them.
(c) Raise them to be Satanists.
(d) Give them to aliens.

3. In what magazine was a short summary of the first seven chapters of this book published?
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) NME.
(c) Parade.
(d) Esquire.

4. What happened to those who criticized witch-burning?
(a) They were exiled.
(b) They were given a special forum.
(c) They were imprisoned.
(d) They were burned.

5. What did the Roper poll not ask?
(a) Why the respondents believe in aliens.
(b) Whether or not the respondents had actually been abducted.
(c) What they thought the purpose of the abductions is.
(d) Whether or not the respondents have a history of mental illness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many of the world's scientists work at least part time for the military?

3. What does LGM stand for?

4. What must advertisers know?

5. What did King James refer to as the 'devil's weed?'

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Carl Sagan is strange about the way people use the acronym 'UFO?'

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe tabloid journalism and the effect that you think it has upon the world.

8. What does Carl Sagan say about the reliability of hypnosis?

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

10. Describe the joke made by the driver.

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