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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of Americans are "scientifically illiterate?"
(a) 88%.
(b) 42%.
(c) 95%.
(d) 50%.

2. What is the code-name for the documents given to Jaime Shandera?
(a) MJ-12.
(b) MI-5.
(c) RF-10-2.
(d) NO-09.

3. Where is Paul Ingram, a man who was hypnotized and falsely recalled abusing his daughter, at the time of writing?
(a) Free after having the charges dropped.
(b) In prison.
(c) On a permanent fundamentalist retreat.
(d) In a psychiatric ward.

4. What word means 'knowledge' in Greek?
(a) Alien.
(b) Plato.
(c) Demon.
(d) Angel.

5. Essentially, what are all UFO cases?
(a) Proof of extraterrestrial life.
(b) Insane.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Anecdotes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Darwin just about to do when he set sail on the H.M.S. Beagle?

2. When was the motion picture, Invaders from Mars, released?

3. What does REM stand for?

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

5. Who wrote A Candle in the Dark?

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