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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 sport does Carl Sagan like?
(a) Hockey.
(b) Football.
(c) Lacrosse.
(d) Basketball.

2. What is Carl Sagan's hometown?
(a) Ithaca.
(b) Jersey City.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Houston.

3. According to one critic, what is James Randi obsessed with?
(a) Money.
(b) Exposing fruad.
(c) Magic.
(d) Reality.

4. What did Carlos and his manager do to the host of the Australian Today Show?
(a) Throw water at him.
(b) All of the below.
(c) Leave the set of his show.
(d) Put a curse on him.

5. Where is Carlos to appear?
(a) England.
(b) Africa.
(c) Australia.
(d) America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term used for basketball players who are playing well?

2. What other use for nuclear weapons was suggested by Edward Teller?

3. What do we do when we discourage children from science?

4. According to Alan Cromer, why is science difficult?

5. According to the Nation of Islam, who created white people?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sagan explain the conflict between our material being and the perceived spiritual world?

2. How did Edward Teller react to the theory on nuclear winter?

3. What is the difference between science and faith healing?

4. What does Alan Cromer say about the emergence of science? What does Sagan think of this thesis?

5. According to Sagan, what is 'perhaps the greatest museum exhibit?' What does it not have?

6. What was the HCUA?

7. What is Carl Sagan's favorite sport? Why?

8. How are scientists generally portrayed on television?

9. What did James Clerk Maxwell achieve?

10. What great responsibility does science have?

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