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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 is at the core of the Earth?
(a) Molten rock.
(b) Atomic fire.
(c) A perfect crystal.
(d) Aliens.

2. What is the only field where things are known for certain?
(a) Science.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Religion.

3. When was the motion picture, Invaders from Mars, released?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1952.

4. Where is Paul Ingram, a man who was hypnotized and falsely recalled abusing his daughter, at the time of writing?
(a) On a permanent fundamentalist retreat.
(b) In a psychiatric ward.
(c) In prison.
(d) Free after having the charges dropped.

5. What does the NSA do?
(a) Catches drug dealers.
(b) Sends satellites into space.
(c) Reads the world's mail.
(d) Assassinates world leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the driver become sad?

2. According to a 1992 Roper poll, what percentage of Americans has been abducted by aliens?

3. What is the contrail of Aurora said to look like?

4. What does Carl Sagan say Howard Blum does not understand?

5. What does REM stand for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the history of demons.

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

3. What is the connection between science and pseudoscience?

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

5. How was the sample of The Demon-Haunted World received by the media?

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

7. What is the story of Paul Ingram?

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

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

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

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