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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 hazard threatened the Voyager craft in Sagan's plan to take a distant picture of Earth?
(a) The Sun's rays.
(b) Space dust.
(c) Micrometeorites.
(d) Cosmic rays.

2. What major component of the Voyager craft was threatened in Sagan's plan to take a distant picture of Earth?
(a) The vidicon system.
(b) The telemetry antenna.
(c) The solar panel array.
(d) The spectral analyzer.

3. What does Sagan say that philosophy and religion should provide?
(a) Comfort.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Guidance.
(d) Truth.

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that early planets may have been made incapable of bearing life?
(a) Being thrown into outer space.
(b) Being heavily bombarded by meteors.
(c) Falling into the sun.
(d) Being pushed into a distant orbit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are the terrain features generated by Venus' volcanoes?

2. What was Neptune's position in the solar system as of the writing of this book?

3. What is notable about the Sun's light in Sagan's distant picture of the Earth?

4. Sagan suggests that the image of the "pale blue dot" teaches the need for what?

5. The atmosphere of Venus would best be described as which of the following?

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