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

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

3. How was the article received by the media?
(a) It received rave reviews.
(b) It was largely misunderstood.
(c) It was mostly ignored.
(d) It was universally panned.

4. According to a 1992 Roper poll, what percentage of Americans has been abducted by aliens?
(a) Two percent.
(b) Eighteen percent.
(c) Thirteen percent.
(d) Ten percent.

5. 'Those in power ... have a vested interest in discouraging _____________.'
(a) Skepticism.
(b) Credulity.
(c) Alien invasion.
(d) Demons.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the code-name for the documents given to Jaime Shandera?

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

4. What did Carl see in a brooding storm cloud near Fiji?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the typical alien abduction scenario.

3. Describe the response the sample got from readers.

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

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

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

7. What is the story of Franz Mesmer?

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

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

10. Describe the strange case of Dr. Robert Lindner and Kirk Allen?

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