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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) Psychic surgery.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Earth rays.
(d) The economy.

2. What type of rewards are there in becoming an 'alien abudctee?'
(a) Financial rewards.
(b) Psychic rewards.
(c) Fame and attention.
(d) All of the below.

3. What does not sell well?
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Superstition.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Skepticism.

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

5. Essentially, what are all UFO cases?
(a) Proof of extraterrestrial life.
(b) Anecdotes.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a society that believes in ghosts, how are reports of ghost sighting received?

2. Whose portrait can be seen on the Uranian moon Ariel?

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

4. What does every generation worry about?

5. Which branch of science cannot foretell the future?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the history of demons.

2. What is the story of Paul Ingram?

3. What is the connection between science and pseudoscience?

4. Describe the typical alien abduction scenario.

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

6. Describe Malleus Maleficarum and the effect it had upon human history.

7. What is an 'error bar?'

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

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

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

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