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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) They reach the Kuiper belt.
(b) They pass the troposphere.
(c) Their radio transmitters die.
(d) Their solar cells die.

2. Where does Sagan think that life will most likely be eventually found?
(a) A moon in the solar system.
(b) Mars.
(c) Earth-like planets around other stars.
(d) Deep space.

3. Sagan uses what term to describe a theology that requires God to intentionally mislead human scientists?
(a) Dogmatic.
(b) Malevolent.
(c) Typical.
(d) Unsupportable.

4. The "great demotions" are changes in thinking about the status of what?
(a) The age of the Earth.
(b) The dominance of religion.
(c) The place of humanity in the universe.
(d) The body of human scientific work.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sagan say is an easy way to visually identify planets?

3. At the time this book was written, how many planets were known to exist around other stars?

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

5. How old does Sagan state that "fundamentalist monotheists" believe the Earth to be?

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