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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, The Gates of the Wonder World Open, Chapter 16, Scaling Heaven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Neptune's largest moon?
(a) Eurydice.
(b) Europa.
(c) Ariadne.
(d) Triton.

2. Why does Sagan say that Mars is a more desirable target for human exploration than the moon?
(a) It is more like Earth.
(b) It has more to teach.
(c) It has more resources.
(d) It is more inhabitable.

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

4. What scientist is well-known for writing about the differences between species of animals?
(a) Maxwell.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Hawking.
(d) Dawkins.

5. How old does Sagan state that "fundamentalist monotheists" believe the Earth to be?
(a) 1 million years old.
(b) 10,000 years old.
(c) 6,000 years old.
(d) 300,000 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sagan describes humans as which of the following, with respect to their arrival in the universe?

2. What role does Sagan suggest that religion has played in the development of science?

3. At the time this book was written, how many Mars Observers had been flown successfully?

4. How does Sagan say that science relates to the existence of a divine being?

5. The records on the Voyager craft are most like what type of information storage method?

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