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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. Earth will most likely lose contact with the Voyager probes when what happens?
(a) Their radio transmitters die.
(b) They pass the troposphere.
(c) They reach the Kuiper belt.
(d) Their solar cells die.

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

3. Which of the following is one of the moons of Mars?
(a) Phobos.
(b) Gilgamesh.
(c) Orpheus.
(d) Hecuba.

4. Sagan describes humans as which of the following, with respect to their arrival in the universe?
(a) Extreme latecomers.
(b) Early adopters.
(c) Middling achievers.
(d) Slow movers.

5. Einstein's work undermined what concept?
(a) That the Sun is unique.
(b) That light is the fastest thing in the universe.
(c) That our frame of motion is stationary.
(d) That humans can travel to distant stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What element does Sagan say motivated the space programs of the 60s and 70s?

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

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

4. The Anthropic Principle is divided into two theories that are termed what?

5. Mars apparently once had what resource?

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