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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 students in the U.S. dislike school?
(a) 22%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 8%.
(d) 50%.

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

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

4. Who was Stalin's rival?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Leon Trotsky.
(c) Fritz Platten.
(d) Vladimir Lenin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city was the 1939 Wold Fair held?

2. What piece of technology existed in 1860?

3. What do chimps insert reeds into in order to get protein?

4. In 1993, how many of the people of China, as in America, knew the Earth went around the sun once a year?

5. Why has quantum mechanics not been popularized?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to students between kindergarten and graduating high school?

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

3. What is the story of Carlos?

4. What did James Clerk Maxwell achieve?

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

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

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

8. How is the baloney detection kit used in this chapter?

9. What is the story of Frederick Bailey?

10. According to Sagan, why do we stereotype?

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