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

2. What planet represents the farthest distance from Earth that the Voyager craft were intended to function at?
(a) Saturn
(b) Uranus.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Mars.

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

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that Sagan says life seems to be?
(a) Intentional.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Insignificant.
(d) Meaningless.

5. What is the constituent particle of light?
(a) The electron.
(b) The photon.
(c) The neutrino.
(d) The neutron.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What major change have humans made to the environment that would be easily detectable from space?

3. Sagan expects both Voyager spacecrafts to continue to broadcast data through what year?

4. What moon was found to have volcanoes?

5. What planet is the "evening star"?

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