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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Routine Interplanetary Violence, Chapter 18, The Marsh of Camarina.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Titan has what distinction among the moons of the planet it orbits?
(a) It has the widest orbit.
(b) It is the only spherical moon.
(c) It is the largest moon.
(d) It is the only moon with ice water.

2. What does the Geocentric theory state?
(a) The Earth moves in a perfect circle.
(b) The planets and heavens are all fixed.
(c) The Earth is a flat disc.
(d) The sun moves around the Earth.

3. What does Sagan claim is the key element of humanity's future?
(a) Terraforming.
(b) Deep space travel.
(c) Distant worlds.
(d) Faster than light travel.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that early planets may have been made incapable of bearing life?
(a) Being heavily bombarded by meteors.
(b) Being pushed into a distant orbit.
(c) Being thrown into outer space.
(d) Falling into the sun.

5. Many of organic molecules arrived on Earth from what source?
(a) Space dust.
(b) Asteroids.
(c) Comets.
(d) Meteors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most important thing that would immediately be apparent to any alien intelligence that found the Voyager probes?

2. What was Neptune's position in the solar system as of the writing of this book?

3. As of 1990, how many planets did the Voyager craft explore?

4. What material that humans have added to the environment would be easily detectable from space?

5. The atmosphere of Venus would best be described as which of the following?

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