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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term used for basketball players who are playing well?
(a) Burning up.
(b) Hot hand.
(c) On fire.
(d) Ice cold.

2. What is 'soul-stuff' not made of?
(a) Matter.
(b) Ions.
(c) Energy.
(d) Mana.

3. Who sets limits on human ingenuity?
(a) Nature.
(b) Governments.
(c) God.
(d) Scientists.

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

5. What phrase does Robert Anton Wilson use to describe skeptics?
(a) The 'Unfaithful Few.'
(b) The 'Bold Aggressors.'
(c) The 'Young and the Restless.'
(d) The 'New Inquisiton.'

6. What is a single ratings point worth in prime time advertising dollars?
(a) Practically nothing.
(b) Millions.
(c) Hundreds of millions.
(d) Tens of thousands.

7. What nation is the best-entertained nation on Earth?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) The United States.
(d) Japan.

8. What percentage of students in the U.S. dislike school?
(a) 8%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 22%.
(d) 100%.

9. What advantage does science have over history?
(a) A lack of bias.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Societal importance.
(d) Experimentation.

10. In what city was the 1939 Wold Fair held?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Cincinnati.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

11. 'It is certainly true that all beliefs and myths are worthy of a ___________________.'
(a) Respectful hearing.
(b) Severe intellectual drubbing.
(c) Dumpster.
(d) Head shake.

12. How long did it take for history to pass from god-driven to human-driven?
(a) A few hundred years.
(b) Just a few decades.
(c) One hundred thousand years or more.
(d) A couple thousand years.

13. What is there so such thing as?
(a) A stupid answer.
(b) A stupid person.
(c) A stupid idea.
(d) A stupid question.

14. What may have been the decisive element in the Allied victory in World War II?
(a) Radiation.
(b) Radar.
(c) Radio.
(d) Television.

15. What disease does quinine help relieve the symptoms of?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Dengue fever.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Influenza.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carlos and his manager do to the host of the Australian Today Show?

2. According to Alan Cromer, why is science difficult?

3. Where did the experimental nature of science come from?

4. When was the last execution for witchcraft in America?

5. What is CSICOP?

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