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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 was Silas Newton's alien gear made of?
(a) An unknown material.
(b) Kitchen-pot aluminum.
(c) Elerium 115.
(d) Spacecraft-grade titanium.

2. How many UFO reports have there been since 1947?
(a) Over a million.
(b) Six hundred and twenty thousand.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Approximately half a million.

3. What do psychic surgeons use to simulate their surgery?
(a) Chicken liver or goat heart.
(b) A lot of confusing light.
(c) Psychic surgery is not simulated.
(d) Paid actors and special effects.

4. How many people suffer kidney failure from the use of painkillers?
(a) 500.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 50.
(d) 50,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does every generation worry about?

2. How was the article received by the media?

3. What tone does Einstein use in his paper on Special Relativity?

4. What group 'powerfully influenced' Christian philosophy?

5. Which branch of science cannot foretell the future?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the joke made by the driver.

3. What is the significance of hallucinations?

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

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

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

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

8. What is Sagan trying to say with the dragon analogy?

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

10. Why is Hippocrates important?

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