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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What type of rewards are there in becoming an 'alien abudctee?'
(a) Financial rewards.
(b) All of the below.
(c) Psychic rewards.
(d) Fame and attention.
2. What happened to those who criticized witch-burning?
(a) They were given a special forum.
(b) They were imprisoned.
(c) They were exiled.
(d) They were burned.
3. What percentage of American women were sexually abused during childhood?
(a) One in twenty.
(b) One in four.
(c) One in eight.
(d) One in ten.
4. Ronald Reagan confused reality with the plot from which movie?
(a) A Bridge Too Far.
(b) Saving Private Ryan.
(c) A Wing and a Prayer.
(d) The Dirty Dozen.
5. When did a flying saucer allegedly crash in Roswell, New Mexico?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1955.
6. What was Carl Sagan a member of?
(a) The U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
(b) The U.S. Army UFO Investigation Team.
(c) The U.S. Navy Astronomers Association.
(d) The U.S. Government Skeptics Council.
7. How many UFO reports have there been since 1947?
(a) Over a million.
(b) Approximately half a million.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Six hundred and twenty thousand.
8. What is the new name for Constantinople?
(a) Istanbul.
(b) Ankara.
(c) Rome.
(d) Damascus.
9. Which of the following was not a codename for a military balloon?
(a) Mogul.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Genetrix.
(d) Skyhook.
10. What was Silas Newton's alien gear made of?
(a) An unknown material.
(b) Kitchen-pot aluminum.
(c) Elerium 115.
(d) Spacecraft-grade titanium.
11. Which religion denies germ theory?
(a) Islam.
(b) Christian Science.
(c) None of the above.
(d) Scientology.
12. In a society that believes in ghosts, how are reports of ghost sighting received?
(a) Without any investigation whatsoever.
(b) With approval, even prestige.
(c) Without the slightest hesitation.
(d) With disdain, and some suspicion.
13. In Sagan's analogy, what is living in the garage?
(a) Some type of Medusa.
(b) A horrible, slithering monster.
(c) A fire-breathing dragon.
(d) A renegade alien.
14. Where on Mars is the 'face' located?
(a) Iani Chaos.
(b) Cydonia.
(c) Planum Australe.
(d) Tharsis.
15. What is one of the 'great commandments of science?'
(a) 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'
(b) 'Authority is where funding comes from.'
(c) 'Trust authority to know best.'
(d) 'Use science to destroy authority.'
Short Answer Questions
1. How was the article received by the media?
2. What country is Nicholas Spanos from?
3. Who were responsible for the original crop circles?
4. What did the Count of St. Germain claim to be?
5. What does magic require from the audience?
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