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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Carl Sagan, is a national obsession in Britain?
(a) Psychic surgery.
(b) The economy.
(c) Earth rays.
(d) Ghosts.

2. What is Congress dissolving as Carl writes this book?
(a) The Department of Agriculture.
(b) The National Board of Science.
(c) The Council for Scientific Awareness.
(d) The Office of Technology Assessment.

3. What does the driver believe in?
(a) All of the below.
(b) Aliens.
(c) Atlantis.
(d) Channeling.

4. What drug was Antonin Artaud using when he saw shapes in the scenery around him?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Peyote.
(d) LSD.

5. 'It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on ____________________.'
(a) Linear chaotic elements.
(b) Random cosmic violence.
(c) Various interplanetary travels.
(d) Assorted dimensional rifts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were responsible for the original crop circles?

2. What phrase was coined when Carl Sagan was in high school?

3. What did the Roper poll not ask?

4. What tone does Einstein use in his paper on Special Relativity?

5. What does not sell well?

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