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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Evening and Morning Star, Chapter 12, The Ground Melts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What visual resolution would be required to determine the existence of intelligent life on Earth?
(a) 10 cm.
(b) 1,000 meters.
(c) 100 meters.
(d) 1 meter.

2. The records on the Voyager craft are most like what type of information storage method?
(a) A phonograph.
(b) A telegraph code.
(c) Magnetic data storage.
(d) Braille.

3. When was Venus first explored by a space probe?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1961.

4. What characteristic of the atmosphere of Venus was initially impossible to explain?
(a) Its dark spots.
(b) Its high winds.
(c) Its heat.
(d) Its composition.

5. As of 1990, how many planets did the Voyager craft explore?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Geocentric theory state?

2. Sagan suggest that modern religious thinking treats scientific evidence in what way?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that Sagan says life seems to be?

4. In what century was the geocentric theory conclusively disproved?

5. What is notable about the stars in Sagan's distant picture of the Earth?

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