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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hans Hörbiger, what is the Milky Way made of?
(a) Milk.
(b) Soft cheese.
(c) Arayans.
(d) Snowballs.

2. What tabloid carried headlines about Martian civilizations?
(a) News Today.
(b) The Sun.
(c) Weekly World News.
(d) National Enquirer.

3. How was the article received by the media?
(a) It received rave reviews.
(b) It was largely misunderstood.
(c) It was universally panned.
(d) It was mostly ignored.

4. According to popular myth, what do Satanists do with babies?
(a) Raise them to be Satanists.
(b) Sacrifice them.
(c) Eat them.
(d) Give them to aliens.

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

6. What did King James refer to as the 'devil's weed?'
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Crabgrass.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Coca.

7. What year's World Fair introduced Carl Sagan to science?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1969.

8. Who were responsible for the original crop circles?
(a) Hawkins and Arthur.
(b) Ridley and Koestler.
(c) Lundberg and Andrews.
(d) Bower and Chorley.

9. In Sagan's analogy, what is living in the garage?
(a) A renegade alien.
(b) A fire-breathing dragon.
(c) A horrible, slithering monster.
(d) Some type of Medusa.

10. Humans are more closely related to chimpanzees than _____________________.
(a) Spiders are to scorpions.
(b) Dolphins are to whales.
(c) Rats are to mice.
(d) Dogs are to wolves.

11. What percentage of people has experienced a vivid hallucination?
(a) Approximately 50%.
(b) 30-40%.
(c) 5-9%.
(d) 10-25%.

12. What is the key to the success of science?
(a) It is popular with the masses.
(b) It has wields power through atomic weapons.
(c) It has built-in error correction.
(d) It is easy to teach and understand.

13. How many schizophrenics are there on Earth?
(a) Over 50 million.
(b) Under 30 million.
(c) Over 135 million.
(d) Over 100 million.

14. How many of the world's scientists work at least part time for the military?
(a) Almost all.
(b) Roughly half.
(c) Practically none.
(d) Approximately a third.

15. In what magazine was a short summary of the first seven chapters of this book published?
(a) Rolling Stone.
(b) Parade.
(c) Esquire.
(d) NME.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a society that believes in ghosts, how are reports of ghost sighting received?

2. What did Carl see in a brooding storm cloud near Fiji?

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

4. Claims that cannot be tested are _______________.

5. In the book by Robert Lindner, how many minutes are in the hour?

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