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/                QUESTIONS:
/1.   THE HOAX OF WURZBURG (A) BOOMERANGED ON ITS
/PERPETRATORS INSTEAD OF HITTING ITS MARK (B) RANKS WITH
/THE GREATEST PRACTICAL JOKES OF HISTORY (C) BROUGHT
/EVENTUAL FORTUNE TO THE MAN AT WHOM THE JOKE WAS AIMED
/(D) WAS REALLY NOT A HOAX IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD
	B
/2.   THE BUTT OF THE JOKE WAS (A) A UNIVERSITY STUDENT
/(B) A PROFESSOR (C) A PHYSICIAN (D) A MINISTER
	B
/3.  THE SCIENCE OF PALEONTOLOGY IS CONCERNED WITH
/(A) BACTERIA (B) THE PLANETS (C) MEDICINE (D) FOSSILS
	D
/4.  THE JOKERS FASHIONED THEIR FOSSILS OUT OF (A) SOAP
/(B) WAX (C) CLAY (D) WOOD
	C
/5.  THE HOAX WAS PERPETRATED BY (A) BERINGER"S COLLEAGUES
/(B) STUDENTS WITH THE CONNIVANCE OF HIS COLLEAGUES
/(C) STUDENTS WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS COLLEAGUES
/(D) NONE OF THE FOREGOING
	B
/6.  THE JOKERS (A) PLACED THEIR MOST FANTASTIC FIGURES
/ON THE PROFESSOR"S DESK (B) PLACED THEM ON A STAIRWAY
/LEADING TO HIS CLASSROOM (C) BURIED THEIR SECOND BATCH
/IN A PLACE WHERE BERINGER WOULD DISCOVER THEM (D) PLACED
/THEM IN A GLASS CASE CONTAINING FOSSILS
	C
/7.  WHEN BERINGER DISCOVERED THE FOSSILS HE (A) WAS
/DELIGHTED (B) IGNORED THEM (C) RETURNED THEM TO WHOM HE
/CONSIDERED THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER (D) RECOGNIZED THEM AS
/FAKES
	A
/8.  WHEN BERINGER WAS INFORMED ABOUT THE HOAX, HE
/(A) REFUSED TO BELIEVE IT AT FIRST (B) WITHDREW FROM THE
/UNIVERSITY STAFF (C) WROTE A PUBLIC CONFESSION AND
/APOLOGY (D) WENT INTO SECLUSION
	A
/9.   AFTER FINDING THE FAKE FOSSILS, BERINGER
/(A) PUNISHED THE JOKERS (B) GAVE LECTURES ON THE
/DISCOVERY (C) PUBLISHED A BOOK (D) SENT ARTICLES TO
/A NEWSPAPER
	C
/10.  IN THE END BERINGER (A) CONVINCED OTHERS HE WAS
/RIGHT (B) RECEIVED RECOGNITION FROM OTHER SCIENTISTS
/(C) DIED BECAUSE OF THE STRAIN WHICH ACCOMPANIED HIS
/DISCOVERY OF THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FOSSILS (D) TRIED TO
/CAPITALIZE FINANCIALLY ON THE SALE OF THE BOOKS
	C



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