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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. 'It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on ____________________.'
(a) Various interplanetary travels.
(b) Assorted dimensional rifts.
(c) Random cosmic violence.
(d) Linear chaotic elements.

2. What does Malleus Maleficarum mean?
(a) Hunting for Witches.
(b) Witches and Warlocks.
(c) Killer of Witches.
(d) Hammer of Witches.

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

4. What did King James refer to as the 'devil's weed?'
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Coca.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Crabgrass.

5. In a society that believes in ghosts, how are reports of ghost sighting received?
(a) Without any investigation whatsoever.
(b) With approval, even prestige.
(c) With disdain, and some suspicion.
(d) Without the slightest hesitation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group 'powerfully influenced' Christian philosophy?

2. What type of rewards are there in becoming an 'alien abudctee?'

3. Where is Paul Ingram, a man who was hypnotized and falsely recalled abusing his daughter, at the time of writing?

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

5. What do psychic surgeons use to simulate their surgery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the joke made by the driver.

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

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

4. According to Carl Sagan, is spirituality compatible with science? Do you agree?

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

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

7. What is the story of Franz Mesmer?

8. What is the significance of hallucinations?

9. Why is Hippocrates important?

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

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