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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paul the Apostle counsel us to do?
(a) 'Question not the word of God.'
(b) 'Be credulous unto miracles.'
(c) 'Prove all things.'
(d) 'Have faith.'

2. According to Benjamin Franklin, what does every age have?
(a) A special something.
(b) More wisdom than the last.
(c) A peculiar folly.
(d) A tremendous time of need.

3. What are the chances of being cured at Lourdes?
(a) One in a hundred.
(b) One in ten.
(c) One in a thousand.
(d) One in a million.

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

5. What did U.S. students average on a global algebra test?
(a) 4%.
(b) 99%.
(c) 78%.
(d) 43%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Witches were burned because the 'Church abhors ____________.'

2. What happened to those who criticized witch-burning?

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

4. What word means 'knowledge' in Greek?

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

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