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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 percentage of American women were sexually abused during childhood?
(a) One in eight.
(b) One in ten.
(c) One in twenty.
(d) One in four.

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

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

4. What does Carl Sagan try not to think with?
(a) His brain.
(b) His gut.
(c) His third eye.
(d) His heart.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the center of which galaxy are millions of voices reportedly singing 'Glory, glory, glory to the Lord on high?'

2. In what magazine was a short summary of the first seven chapters of this book published?

3. When was Sputnik 1 launched?

4. What is spoofing?

5. What phrase was coined when Carl Sagan was in high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mr. Buckley's problem with science?

2. What is Carl Sagan afraid of? Has it already happened?

3. What is the story of Franz Mesmer?

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

5. Describe the joke made by the driver.

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

7. What is an 'error bar?'

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

9. How were the pyramids on Mars really created?

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

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