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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 do kids have an irresistible urge to do?
(a) Taste.
(b) Touch.
(c) Learn.
(d) Smell.

2. What can diminish a child's ability to understand and learn?
(a) Television.
(b) Physical abuse.
(c) Parental drug use.
(d) Poor nutrition.

3. What do we do when we discourage children from science?
(a) Disenfranchise them.
(b) Destroy them.
(c) Disable them.
(d) Dishearten them.

4. What nicknames did Rep. J. Parnell Thomas give to Dr. Edward U. Condon?
(a) Dr. Condom.
(b) The missing link.
(c) All of the below.
(d) The weakest link.

5. What children's game is similar to the way we pass information without reading?
(a) Monopoly.
(b) Hide-and-seek.
(c) Hopscotch.
(d) Telephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of students in the U.S. dislike school?

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

3. How is the name 'Spee' pronounced?

4. Who sets limits on human ingenuity?

5. What is 'soul-stuff' not made of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in environments of established knowledge? What happens when what needs to be learned changes quickly?

2. Describe the response that Carl Sagan's article in Parade magazine received from readers?

3. What advantage does the idea of the afterlife give a society?

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

5. What great responsibility does science have?

6. What is the story of Carlos?

7. What negative traits sometimes exist in skeptics?

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

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

10. Describe the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.

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