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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 role does Sagan suggest that religion has played in the development of science?
(a) Religion informs and guides scientific development.
(b) Religiously-minded individuals often become scientists.
(c) Science progressed in spite of religion.
(d) Religion has aided science in significant ways.

2. Sagan compares the human need for religion to what?
(a) An injured person's need for aid.
(b) A man's need for water.
(c) A blind person's need for a cane.
(d) An infant's need for a parent.

3. Where does Neptune fall in the mission plan for the Voyager probes?
(a) They will go into decaying orbit around it.
(b) They will pass by it only at an immense distance
(c) They will return to the inner solar system after passing it.
(d) It is their final planetary destination.

4. How much bigger is Neptune than Earth?
(a) Four times.
(b) A hundred times.
(c) Forty times.
(d) Two hundred times.

5. Sagan suggest that modern religious thinking treats scientific evidence in what way?
(a) It blatantly disregards the evidence.
(b) It intrudes on the evidence.
(c) It is cautious about the evidence.
(d) It makes no statements about the evidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Neptune discovered?

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

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

4. Which of the following does Sagan NOT cite as evidence for the age of the universe?

5. What is the constituent particle of light?

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