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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Routine Interplanetary Violence, Chapter 18, The Marsh of Camarina.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helped Sagan calculate that Titan should be host to oceans?
(a) Mach.
(b) Cassini.
(c) Kuiper.
(d) Dermott.

2. How does Sagan characterize most of the benefits gleaned from the space programs of the 60s and 70s?
(a) They were unexpected.
(b) They were intangible.
(c) They were underestimated.
(d) They were relatively unimportant.

3. What does Sagan claim is the key element of humanity's future?
(a) Terraforming.
(b) Distant worlds.
(c) Faster than light travel.
(d) Deep space travel.

4. Which of the following does Sagan NOT cite as evidence for the age of the universe?
(a) Impact craters.
(b) Radioactive dating.
(c) Star evolution.
(d) Telemetric spectrometry.

5. What is the farthest orbital location that humans have ventured to since the last time men went to the moon?
(a) Low Earth orbit.
(b) Geosynchronous orbit.
(c) High Earth orbit.
(d) Parking orbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many of organic molecules arrived on Earth from what source?

2. How much bigger is Neptune than Earth?

3. What punishment did Galileo suffer as a result of his works?

4. What planet is the "evening star"?

5. How fast was Voyager I moving in 1990?

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