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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, The Gift of Apollo, Chapter 14, Exploring Other Worlds and Protecting This One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What planet in the solar system obviously suffers from a severe greenhouse gas effect?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Mars.
(c) Venus.
(d) Jupiter.

2. Conditions of what type were extremely important in the creation of early life on Earth?
(a) Geological.
(b) Littoral.
(c) Atmospheric.
(d) Aquatic.

3. Sagan expects both Voyager spacecrafts to continue to broadcast data through what year?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2050.
(d) 2030.

4. What is the constituent particle of light?
(a) The photon.
(b) The neutrino.
(c) The electron.
(d) The neutron.

5. Which of the following is a major point opponents of space exploration raise?
(a) No good has ever come of space exploration.
(b) There is nothing of value anywhere else in the solar system.
(c) Space exploration exists for national prestige only.
(d) The problems on Earth should be solved first.

Short Answer Questions

1. One feature that Sagan suggests would be easier to detect that human intelligence would be flatulence from what kind of animal?

2. When probes enter the atmospheres of other planets, what color do they often see the sky to be?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that early planets may have been made incapable of bearing life?

4. Sagan suggests that ancient people did not think of the moon as which of the following?

5. What scientist is well-known for writing about the differences between species of animals?

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