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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is at the core of the Earth?
(a) Molten rock.
(b) Aliens.
(c) Atomic fire.
(d) A perfect crystal.

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

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

5. 'Those in power ... have a vested interest in discouraging _____________.'
(a) Credulity.
(b) Alien invasion.
(c) Skepticism.
(d) Demons.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to popular myth, what do Satanists do with babies?

2. What must advertisers know?

3. What does magic require from the audience?

4. What percentage of people has experienced a vivid hallucination?

5. What do humans crave?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the joke made by the driver.

2. How were the pyramids on Mars really created?

3. What explanation does Sagan give for massive blackouts on released NSA documents?

4. What is Sagan's disagreement with his friend John Mack? Why does John believe what he does?

5. What modern problems do we need science to help us with? Can science really solve these problems?

6. Why is Hippocrates important?

7. Describe the strange case of Dr. Robert Lindner and Kirk Allen?

8. What is the significance of hallucinations?

9. What is the story of Paul Ingram?

10. What is the story of Franz Mesmer?

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