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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. What was Edward Teller an advocate of?
(a) The Super.
(b) Nuclear disarmament.
(c) Nazi Germany.
(d) Racist policies.

2. What is it impossible to tell?
(a) The whole truth and nothing but the truth.
(b) Tall tales.
(c) The difference between identical twins.
(d) The time of day on Earth while standing on the moon.

3. Who was Stalin's rival?
(a) Leon Trotsky.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Fritz Platten.
(d) Vladimir Lenin.

4. What piece of technology existed in 1860?
(a) The radio.
(b) The television.
(c) The telegraph.
(d) The internal combustion engine.

5. What best defines 'Newton's Sleep?'
(a) Intellectual laziness.
(b) None of the above.
(c) Tunnel vision.
(d) The death of Newton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Shirley MacLaine?

2. What do kids have an irresistible urge to do?

3. What is the path to freedom?

4. In what city was the 1939 Wold Fair held?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What advantage does the idea of the afterlife give a society?

2. What is the relationship between ancient hunters and scientists?

3. What is Carl Sagan's favorite sport? Why?

4. What is the difference between science and faith healing?

5. How did Edward Teller react to the theory on nuclear winter?

6. What is the story of Carlos?

7. What great responsibility does science have?

8. What is the distinction between science and 'shamanism' or religious doctrine?

9. What happens in environments of established knowledge? What happens when what needs to be learned changes quickly?

10. How are scientists generally portrayed on television?

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