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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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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. How does Sagan describe his reaction to the difficulties in detecting human life and intelligence on Earth from space?
(a) Disappointing.
(b) Aggravating.
(c) Unsurprising.
(d) Sobering.

2. What form do the materials that planets emerge from take before they coalesce into proto-planets?
(a) A disc.
(b) A star.
(c) A cloud.
(d) A sphere.

3. What material that humans have added to the environment would be easily detectable from space?
(a) Plastics.
(b) Chlorofluorocarbons.
(c) Carbon dioxide.
(d) Methane.

4. Sagan says that which of the following is the most immediately obvious thing about the Earth?
(a) Its geological features.
(b) Its meteorological features.
(c) The existence of life.
(d) The existence of intelligent life.

5. What is the most important thing that would immediately be apparent to any alien intelligence that found the Voyager probes?
(a) That the probes were intelligently designed.
(b) The location of Earth.
(c) The human DNA sequence.
(d) How to decode the records.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Voyager probes found large amounts of what element on Titan?

2. What does Sagan say that philosophy and religion should provide?

3. What is notable about the Sun's light in Sagan's distant picture of the Earth?

4. Sagan compares the human need for religion to what?

5. What is the major difference between space exploration and human exploration in the past?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems does NASA face in pursuing its missions?

2. What are the distinguishing characteristics of the planet Uranus?

3. How was Sagan involved in discoveries about Titan?

4. What message do the Voyager craft carry with them from Earth?

5. What does the Strong Anthropomorphic principle suggest?

6. What questions does Sagan say he intends to address in this book?

7. Why is it difficult to detect intelligent life on Earth?

8. What would be the first things an alien visitor to Earth would notice about the planet?

9. What advantage make it more likely that the Voyager records will eventually be found?

10. How does Saga claim that human beings expressed their desire to wander as civilization grew?

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