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"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins

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Introduction:
"The great biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins takes on the Almighty in the book "The God Delusion". Here are ten multiple choice questions from that book."


1. To which writer of fiction mentioned often throughout this work is the book dedicated?
    Terry Jones
    Stephen King
    Douglas Adams
    Terry Pratchett


2. In the Preface, Dawkins insists most strenuously that one cannot refer to a "Christian Child". What is his reasoning?
    All of these
    He or she is the "child of Christian parents"
    A child is too young to determine his or her religion
    Children are indoctrinated into their religion


3. What physicist is quoted from "The Pale Blue Dot" as saying: "How is that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?' Instead they say 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way'"?
    Isaac Asimov
    Steven Hawking
    Richard Dawkins
    Carl Sagan


4. What American naturalist of the 19th century said "The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next"?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    John Stuart Mill
    Walt Whitman
    None of These


5. What founding father of the United States said, "The Christian God is a being of terrific character -- cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust"?
    Thomas Jefferson
    John Adams
    George Washington
    John Quincy Adams


6. What US televangelist once told his audience of believers that God would kill him unless they sent him $8 million?
    Oral Roberts
    Jim Bakker
    Pat Robertson
    Jimmy Swaggert


7. Which President of the United States signed the treaty with Tripoli which declared "... the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..."?
    John Kennedy
    Abraham Lincoln
    John Adams
    Woodrow Wilson


8. This is the beginning of a famous atheist's argument. Who argued it? "If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense."
    John Lennon
    Carl Sagan
    Bertrand Russell
    Albert Einstein


9. What is an example of a "why-question" according to Dawkins that is not worthy of legitimate thought?
    Why are unicorns hollow?
    Where does the Purple Spaghetti Monster reside?
    All of These
    Why are birds square?


10. Complete the quote by Dawkins: "How many literalists have read enough of the Bible to know that _____ is prescribed for adultery, for gathering sticks on the Sabbath, and for cheeking your parents?"
    The Death Penalty
    Exile
    Eternal Damnation
    None of These


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