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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To the Australian Aborigines, the rocks, stones, and mountains are alive and humans _____ the world into existence.
(a) Dreamed.
(b) Spoke.
(c) Breathed.
(d) Sang.

2. How does the author describe the glasses Russell Targ wore?
(a) John Lennon.
(b) Coke-bottle.
(c) Ben Franklin.
(d) Horn-rimmed.

3. According to the Achuar and the Huaorani Indians, the dreamer is simply _____ borrowed by the dream.
(a) An expert.
(b) A contractor.
(c) A vessel.
(d) An interpreter.

4. Hal Puthoff liked to say he was from Missouri because it is the _____ state.
(a) Bluebird.
(b) Sunflower.
(c) Silver Mine.
(d) Show Me.

5. Russell Targ's hobby was _____.
(a) Magic.
(b) Darts.
(c) Welding.
(d) Music.

6. Dean Radin began his ESP investigations when he was _____.
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twelve.

7. Roger Nelson loaned a FieldREG machine to the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans to measure the consciousness field at their Sabbats and during ____.
(a) The full moon.
(b) Lent.
(c) Passover.
(d) The equinox.

8. The O.J. Simpson trial took over the _____ as the trial of the century.
(a) Brown Versus the Board of Education.
(b) Ruby Ridge trial.
(c) Scopes monkey trial.
(d) Charles Mansion trial.

9. The problem with experimenting on living systems is their _____.
(a) Sheer dynamism.
(b) Inability to stay focused.
(c) Lack of coherence.
(d) Need for food.

10. What sort of hat was Ingo Swann wearing when he met Hal Puthoff for the first time?
(a) A green stocking hat.
(b) A red beret.
(c) A black fedora.
(d) A white cowboy hat.

11. What did William James call the anomalies that occur in life?
(a) Black swanns.
(b) White crows.
(c) Orange wheels.
(d) Green apples.

12. What did Pat Price describe that had been near the swimming pool and had been torn down in Russell Targ's ESP experiments?
(a) A water purification plant.
(b) A train station.
(c) A nuclear missile site.
(d) A dance hall.

13. A group of _____ in a laboratory study at the University of Arizona seemed to validate the idea that consciousness may live on after we die.
(a) Robots.
(b) Political leaders.
(c) Students.
(d) Mediums.

14. President Abraham Lincoln dreamed of his own assassination _____ before he died.
(a) A year.
(b) A day.
(c) A week.
(d) A month.

15. Miguel Alcubierre tried to determine whether or not WARP drives from _____ were possible.
(a) Lost in Space.
(b) Star Trek.
(c) Battlestar Galactica.
(d) Star Wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. One healer employed in Elisabeth Targ's healing experiments was trained as a _____ shaman.

2. Studies involving emotional reactions to photos possibly reflected that Americans were more unsettled by _____ than violence.

3. The healing effect of the mind on the body is called _____.

4. What was one of the techniques used by William Braud to study ESP that was practiced by one of his students?

5. What was the term used to describe when a subject was able to discern, by use of ESP, where a traveler had been hours or days after the traveler had left?

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